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...such stories. Kehlmann embarks on an ambitious project to chronicle the process of creating a new iconic figure for the 21st century, ultimately finding it to be a futile endeavor. The book itself doesn’t exactly succeed either.Recounted in the witty and rhythmic voice of journalist Sebastian Zollner, the novel tells of how Zollner, who is just one bestseller away from fame, travels to the countryside to interview the reclusive Manuel Kaminski and write the artist’s definitive biography. But he soon gets sidetracked from this task, finding himself on a road trip with the painter...
...forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests.) Few knew what the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons were when a pro basketball team played under that name. (They were players owned by Fred Zollner, who also happened to own a piston factory in Fort Wayne.) The early vogue of naming a team for a person seems to have come to an end with Paul Brown...
...Zollner Pistons eventually became the Detroit Pistons, showing that some nicknames travel well. The Brooklyn Dodgers, named for the difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however, makes no sense at all, though it did when the team was in Minnesota. Utah, with its Mormon tradition, could easily have accepted the New Orleans football team (the Saints, as in Latter-Day Saints and saints who go marching in). Instead it got the New Orleans basketball team, now known...
Obeying the guerrillas' order, Captain Erwin Zollner landed at Aden in the People's Democratic Republic of South Yemen. There the guerrillas freed women and children and 16 hours later the 118 male passengers. The 14 crew members, however, were held for two days while the airline concluded a ransom agreement...
...western division, and given a good chance to win the east-west playoffs, are the red-hot Fort Wayne Pistons, who at week's end led both divisions with a .773 percentage and had won nine of their last ten games. The Pistons' owner, Fred Zollner, a millionaire piston manufacturer, has spent gobs of money for playing talent, including Captain Andy Phillip, a backcourt ace, and for his coach this year hired Charley Eckman, an N.B.A. referee with no previous coaching experience. On the bench. Novice Coach Eckman comports himself like a cross between a whirling dervish...