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...Bogside Provo headquarters is in a narrow lane near the gasworks, reachable via the one un-barricaded road from the city. When I arrived a few minutes after the shooting, a youth with shaggy hair, hollow cheeks and a euphoric look lay slumped and panting on a rickety old couch. A poster on the wall proclaimed END BRITISH TERROR and showed a Union Jack dripping blood on a skull and crossbones. A small table was piled with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept passing through...
...Stride. McGovern toured the delegation caucuses with other candidates, arguing his case. Before the credentials fight, says Gary Hart, "he was as apprehensive as I've ever seen him. It knocked him off his stride." As McGovern monitored the battle on TV, he sat shoeless and tieless on a couch eating a T-bone steak and ice cream, and occasionally fondling his month-old baby grandson Matthew. At 3 that morning, Eleanor McGovern drove back to the Doral from the convention center; when she got there, she found that the candidate had gone to sleep...
...Show country (Johnny guffawed appreciatively at the movie's realism). The third son of Ted and Katie Bench (there is also a daughter Marilyn), Johnny prospered in the kind of aggressively athletic household that can send a young man to the big leagues or the psychiatrist's couch. His father, a onetime truckdriver and furniture salesman, had been a semipro catcher. It was his idea for Johnny to become a catcher; he reasoned that there was a dearth of good ones in the majors and that catching would be the quickest path to success. Ted even created...
...funny either. As the movie version of Goodbye, Columbus proved, the controlled hysteria with which Roth cauterizes his past is hard to translate into film. Actors, scenery and background music only dilute the intensity of Portnoy's brilliant lie-down comic routine on the psychoanalyst's couch. Roth's re-Joycing in the scenes of Portnoy's heroic masturbations lose their hilarious dimension and descend pathetically into the baggy-pants scatology of the oldtime burlesque skit...
...does not depend on the sweaty pursuit of knowledge. Heather simply acquires his erudition and wisdom from Rogers, a professor of English at Penn State, and wears it with casual eccentricity. Scenes, values and fortunes change as easily as channels on a TV set remotely controlled from a comfortable couch...