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...Oscar Robertson. Watching "the Big O" shoot 13 baskets in Syracuse, Hoban concluded: "He makes it look easy-nothing heroic." But in his paintings, says Hoban, "I try to go for a heroic quality. You could take the basketball out of Robertson's hand and put a sword in and he's in a classic stance for a soldier. What makes sport interesting to watch is that the athletes are proxies for us and celebrate the qualities of cunning and endurance that we should have in our lives...
...Want to Go. "The horse is a splendid animal, but the cow is irregular. You can make more out of it," he said. In an early self-portrait of himself as a golfer, he made himself look like a Japanese war lord, his mashie like a samurai sword...
Police mamma Helen mother please take me out. Come on open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up you got a big mouth! Please help me get up. Henry Max come over here. French Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone...
...Morphy's shade wavers through a series of chess triumphs (actual) and a career as a Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal...
...Marines," commented French Director Roger Vadim (who gave the world Brigitte Bardot), "plants a sword in the human consciousness, for it tells of young volunteers who, in order to prove their human identity, accept precisely the contrary: loss of their individuality . . . Still, I know well while writing these words freely that I owe my freedom in part to other shaved-headed young men who 16 years ago brandished these bayonets on beaches now boasting bloody names...