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...newsletter to players earlier this month advised: "The outfit of the Compleat Croquet Player includes longjohns, rain gear, mittens, [and] warm boots...
...born an artist, so no man is born an angler," wrote Izaak Walton. He was both, but that was an easier accomplishment in the day of The Compleat Angler (1653), when there were fewer artists and more fish. Today it is harder to coax a fresh idea or albacore to the surface...
...exhibit hall, 55 suppliers discreetly displayed their publications, a bewildering array of Bible translations and the latest wares for the compleat modern missioner. While television is the engine of U.S. evangelism, it is of no use to most of these frontier workers. A hand-cranked cassette tape player was the favorite gadget for preachers who cannot afford batteries and operate in areas that lack electricity...
Jennings, a top TV technician, is the compleat Yuppie ("clever, ironic, knowing, casual"), who views life as a videotape that needs editing; his boss, Talk-Show Host Billy Bell, sees it as a sequel to success. Bell has a few upscale plans of his own, among them bedding Kelly and beginning a political career. Only one problem nags: he does not know what politicians actually do. "They announced and attacked," writes Stevens. "He knew he would excel at that. But the rest...
...hustings, Mondale presents himself as the Compleat Democrat "who cares" about all the causes of all the party's various constituencies. His game plan is to appeal unashamedly to interest groups by plugging the issues each holds dear, hoping to weld them into a majority coalition. An incomplete list of the promises made in a single speech in Rochester, last week: for labor, to "put all Americans back to work"; for teachers, to "lead a renaissance in American education"; for business, to force foreign competitors to "open their markets to us as much as we've opened ours...