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...home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing a resounding one for wonderful young Pitcher Bret Saberhagen in a 6-1 celebration. As Pendleton supplied a counterpoint to Brett, White is the flip side of airborne Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, except White's style is to avoid notice, to be so good that nobody sees he is there, and incidentally to get in front of the ball. His relay to Brett at third base in the first game to disabuse Willie McGee of a triple approximated poetry...
...they are like Lake Wobegonians, who would be the last people in the world to listen to A Prairie Home Companion. So he says. The small town of Isle, Minn., on a lake called Mille Lacs, suggested some of the physical characteristics of Lake Wobegon, but he says that except for his aunt Eleanor Johnson, who is Aunt Flo in the book, he did not really know the people who lived there. Lake Wobegon is elusive. The early surveyors mapped Minnesota in quadrants, he explains in his book, beginning at the edges of the state and working toward the center...
...West Texas, Alcorn boasted, "It's a deal where you can walk down the street and people will speak to you even if they don't know you, even the women." Truer words were never spoken about these warmhearted citizens, except when it comes to football. For example, just that morning a Midland sports columnist had used his forum to accuse a genial visiting correspondent of "worming a ticket...
...conspicuous helmet was a cap of riveted metal leaves, weighing up to 11 lbs. and meant to protect a man's skull against sword and club. But was ever a martial object more drenched in symbolic fancy? The helmet had to convey no meaning to the warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form was fixed by the 13th...
...long run, China could become the most attractive market of all. Already Japan sends more goods to China[*] some $9 billion worth so far this year--than any other country except the U.S. "We see no limit to economic relations with China," said Japan's Yoshino. In addition, China is building trade with less developed Asian countries, buying rubber and pig iron, for example, from Malaysia...