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What is it like to be the greatest tennis player of our time, perhaps of all time? Sport Writer B. J. Phillips, who did this week's cover story on Bjorn Borg, gained some surprising insights into the life of the Swedish superstar. Phillips spent two weeks with Borg at the French Open in Paris, watching him in action (he won the tournament handily), at practice and at rest. She talked with his fiancée, Mariana Simionescu, a tennis star in her own right, his parents and his coach. She had lengthy sessions with Borg himself, including...
...infamous orphanages called Homes for the Children of Enemies of the People. Few writers can reproduce the lingering stench of brutality and fear better than he. In his story Victory, a gem of Russian short fiction, a chance game of chess on a train between a brutish but canny player and an intellectual becomes a moral life and death struggle...
...endless" chain is illegal in California. Since the supply of investors is finite, someone is bound to get burned, sooner or later. By last week, police had arrested 256 pyramid builders, and the craze was showing signs of fading-onlyto rise again in a less expensive form. The player invests $100, the roster contains 16 names, and the payoff is a modest $800. Enough, perhaps, to pay your lawyer if the police join the game...
About halfway through this collection of ten short stories and a novella, a Class C minor league baseball player named Rick Stanley hits a home run: "It would happen again, in other ball parks, in other seasons; and if Stanley had been able to cause it instead of having it happen to him, he would be in the major leagues." Author Andre Dubus, 43, specializes in such people, interested but hapless spectators of their own lives. Although many of his characters are physically rooted in New England mill towns, they walk the streets as moral transients. "Should and shouldn...
...quasi records: Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies walked and then stole his way around the bases a few games ago, becoming the first National League player to do that since Harvey Hendrick of Brooklyn...