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...ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never had time to reflect, and looking back after retirement, everything seemed so jammed together." When the Cowboys called, looking for an emergency replacement, Smith was 38. "I promise you, I was like some old boy in his living room thinking, 'Man, I'd like to be down there with the Dallas Cowboys.' Suddenly I was, and it came to me what a great gift it is to have the ability to play. I was given a little slot of time back to understand this. One pass...
...past few weeks, half a million Peking schoolchildren have fanned out into the city's streets to look for "bad characters." Another Cultural Revolution in the making? Not at all. The Young Pioneers, a political version of boy and girl scouts, are taking part in a scholarly exercise called "Let the spring wind drive away wrong characters." Dictionaries in hand, they are scouring the city for incorrect Chinese characters in advertisements, shop names and road signs. The kids have found and corrected 40,000 bad characters...
Inheriting the family business seems a wish more appropriate to builders and bankers than ballplayers and boxers. Yet Joe Frazier is a cornerman for son Marvis. Jack Nicklaus II contemplates having his own whirl at the golf tour. And Don Shula has just promoted his oldest boy David to assistant head coach of the Miami Dolphins. "It's a wonderful thing when a son follows you in your life's work," Shula says, a sentiment probably shared by Buffalo Quarterback and Congressman Jack Kemp. At Dartmouth, David Shula caught most of his passes from current Los Angeles Rams Quarterback Jeff...
...ordinary family--then shockingly reveals a mysterious fable of fear and longing. Connie (Laura Dern) is a coltish California girl trying to cope with her brand-new woman's body and its desperate urgencies. She sasses her angry mom, cruises the mall with her girlfriends and dreams of a boy who will hold her close and sing to her. Enter Arnold Friend (Treat Williams), an older man whose silky threats mesmerize the girl into taking his dare. Arnold is Connie's demon lover, a nightmare image of every male she has ever vamped, and the price he exacts...
...chapters plus a section called "The End," suggesting an ironic play on the 14 Stations of the Cross. The first chapter is a stunner. At dawn on a Good Friday in the Princeton-like community of Haddam, N.J., Bascombe and X meet at Ralph's grave to mark the boy's birthday. They talk more honestly than they ever could as husband and wife. She is a gifted golfer with hopes of joining the L.P.G.A. tour. There are two other Bascombe children who live with her in a new development house. Frank has kept the old Tudor residence rather than...