Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...category of ''heavy drinkers''-those who regularly consume more than a six-pack of beer or five shots of liquor at a sitting-now includes 29% of undergraduate men and 11% of the women...
Actor Heard, who has a gift for portraying troubled and somewhat enigmatic young men, plays Charles lightly, but with an edge of lunacy. The film's statement, that love is madness, seems only partly comic; and it is an open question during most of Head over Heels whether this madness is a desirable condition. Di rector Joan Micklin Silver lets the action and Heard's characterization veer close to the actual, unfunny sort of in sanity. Once or twice before the happy ending, it seems that something gruesome may be in the air. The quark, or question mark...
Follett is a master of crafty ploy and credible detail, ranging effortlessly from an Israeli kibbutz to the intricacies of Euratom and the shipping world. In the novel's set piece, Dickstein's men, the fedayeen and the Soviets battle ferociously for the wheezing old freighter with its uranium cargo. At times the reader can only wonder, with Pierre Borg, head of the Mossad, ''You wouldn't think we were the chosen people, with our luck.'' But good luck holds, and so does Follett's sizzling narrative...
...years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston Red Sox has all the pictures, and the folksie, barstool chatter extracts the Bostonese from personages...
...ABOVE ALL, this is a book of fans and their ballplayers, not of people; of the men the fans saw, the media noted, the photographers etched. Rarely does this picture history show the picture that was never printed, the quote that wasn't punctuated by "heck" and "gee" and a series of ellipses...and the closer the history gets to 1979, the less incisive the history becomes...