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...also certifiable. "A blithe psychopath," in the words of Charles Willeford's spiffy source novel, Junior is fresh out of a California prison and primed for Miami vice. His M.O.: robs crooks who have robbed other people. Thinks he's smart; isn't. Has grousy temper; will break the finger of an unsuspecting airport Hare Krishna. Can compose haiku during his heists -- "Breaking, entering/ The dark and lonely places/ Finding a big gun" -- but can't choreograph a decent holdup. Junior is an engaging monster, a clown in his own horror show. As his nemesis, Miami detective Hoke Moseley (Fred...
...manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge," an Eastern European government goes belly-up, a newborn baby enters the world, a cancer victim leaves...
Folon's watercolor-washed world features serpentine arrows, pedestrian- dwarfing buildings and blank-faced men, as well as rainbows, birds and boats. In The Silence, 1974, he makes the enigmatic figure of a sphinx his own. The mythical creature, at rest in a blazing desert landscape, raises one blue finger to its lips to demand tranquillity with an inaudible "Shhh!" The etching titled New York Times, 1974, shows square-headed city folk blown about by the wind as they clutch copies of their favorite paper. Other images add a message to the mirth. The Feast, 1983, packs a chilling political...
...lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed," junior Captain Alec Berg said. "I can't put my finger on anything to do better, specifically...
...refusing to guarantee the Polish borders, Kohl allowed much of the world to point the finger and say, See, there they go again. As Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told TIME last week, "All the recent ambiguous statements on the issue have convinced us that we are correct in demanding that the border be confirmed before Germany's unification...