Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November gathering of two teams on a playing field in either New Haven, Conn. or Cambridge, the complete spectacle that accompanies the football contest known as The Game, has contributed more than its share of yarn. But in the 110 years that the Yale and Harvard eleven have faced each other, there is one game that stands out, one game that became legendary the second after the final two points made their way onto the scoreboard in The Stadium...
...looking for a whiz-banging pageturner, an unputdownable crackerjack, a humdinging literary tour de force, a ripping yarn, look elsewhere. Laurie Colwin has written several delightful, original books. Her last, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, isn't one of them...
...Firm, John Grisham's tort thriller about tax attorneys fronting for the Mafia, would try to streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
...show hosts. The rumor machine is cranking out bogus stories about her face (lifted), her sex life (either nonexistent or all too active) and her marriage (a sham). Many of the stories are attributed to the Secret Service in an attempt to give the tales credibility. She denies the yarn about her throwing a lamp (or Bible or vase), then wonders about the sources. "Why are they telling lies about me? What is it about me? It's strange. Obviously something has to be going on. People are out there trying to promote this...
Leolo finally declares, "And I shall rest my head between two worlds, in the Valley of the Vanquished." That is where we all live, suspended between childhood and its haunting afterimage. Hollywood wants us to think of youth as a ripping yarn, where every adventure has a happy ending. Leolo sees childhood as the acid test for maturity...