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...Woods, that means being courteous to those who demand his time, without pretending to relish the interaction. In conversation, he fixes a hard stare on others in the room, allowing questions to unspool in full before he launches into a response. The approach was honed by Woods' father Earl, who gave his son his first lesson in handling the media when Tiger was four: "Answer the question, and tell the truth." It's a technique that stresses directness, not warmth...
Primary season has a way of reducing grand, soul-searching battles into questions you can cup in your hand: Are you better off now? Why not the best? Whom do you trust? Candidates unspool speeches on education and health care and economic policy, and then they trip over questions about where the Confederate flag should fly and whether they can tell if a person is gay and "How off-beat is your heart anyway, Senator?" There are still nine months of ads and polls and policy papers to go, but there may never be a better time than these next...
...year-old DiMaggio, playing in the extremely competitive Pacific Coast League, hit safely in 61 straight games. Or look past that unfortunate day in Cleveland when third baseman Ken Keltner smothered two torpedoes off DiMaggio's bat and ended the 1941 run: the next day DiMaggio began to unspool another, 16-game streak. Hitting safely in 56 straight games is a miracle; hitting safely in 72 out of 73 is an expression of consistent mastery...
...Tell me a story" used to be the plea of childhood. It is rapidly becoming the demand of adults. In bookstores across the U.S., literature is assuming a different shape. In addition to traditional clothbound editions and paperbacks, books now lie coiled in little boxes, ready to unspool and speak to anyone with $7.95 and a tape player...
Without exception, the stories in this collection unspool into a world of loneliness, yearning and blood. Auto crashes seem to be fatefully programmed into the character of the victims. A girl imagines the Southwest as an optical illusion of sunshine and sand divided by highways. The designs of small animals are mashed into the hot roadway, "run over again and again by big trucks and retired people seeing America...