Semi Tough

Author : Dan JENKINS
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780306824357

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Semi-Tough by Dan JENKINS Pdf

Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, whose team has come to Los Angeles for an epic duel with the despised "dog-ass" Jets in the Super Bowl. But Billy Clyde is faced with a dual challenge: not only must he try to run over a bunch of malevolencies incarnate, but he has also been commissioned by a New York book publisher to keep a journal of the events leading up to, including, and following the game. Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.

Author : Jackie Barbosa
Publisher : Jackie Barbosa
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781735320533

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Semi-Tough Luck by Jackie Barbosa Pdf

Note: This novella was originally released in the limited edition anthology, Do It Again. Sylvia Tonight, I lost my home, most of my possessions, and my livelihood when my semi rig was stolen from a truck stop parking lot in Middle-of-Nowhere, Nebraska. Yeah, everything’s insured, but that still leaves me with nowhere to sleep, one change of clothing, no way to get home, and only the paltry credit line on my Visa to cover my expenses until the insurance company settles. So it’s not like I can easily refuse when the local sheriff suggests that I hitch a ride with his younger brother, Ivan Carlson, who’s headed to San Diego to play pro hockey. There’s no reason to think Ivan will be anything but a perfect gentleman. Which is a shame, because he’s sex on skates, but it would be wrong for me to take advantage of him. Wouldn’t it? Ivan When I met Sylvia Figueres, she was having the worst day of her life. The last thing a woman in her shoes needs is some stranger hitting on her. But man, I want to. Then my brother points out that she needs a ride to the west coast and I just happen to be going that way. I can’t say no, and since my big brother, the goddamn sheriff, is trusting me to behave like the gentleman I’m not, I’m going to have to keep my feelings to myself. And drive fast. Or that’s the plan, until we wind up having to share a motel room. Whoops?

Author : Dan JENKINS
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306824357

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Semi-Tough by Dan JENKINS Pdf

"Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." -- Don Imus Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, whose team has come to Los Angeles for an epic duel with the despised "dog-ass" Jets in the Super Bowl. But Billy Clyde is faced with a dual challenge: not only must he try to run over a bunch of malevolents incarnate, but he has also been commissioned by a New York book publisher to keep a journal of the events leading up to, including, and following the game. Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.

Author : Dan Jekins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SEMI-TOUGH by Dan Jekins Pdf

Author : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0875652859

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Texas Literary Outlaws by Steven L. Davis Pdf

Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of six Texas writers, calling themselves the Mad Dogs, who came of age during a period of rapid social change: Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent.

Author : Bruce Babington,Peter William Evans
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Comedy films
ISBN : 0719022916

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Affairs to Remember by Bruce Babington,Peter William Evans Pdf

Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307474704

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His Ownself by Dan Jenkins Pdf

In His Ownself, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of his legendary career as a sportswriter and novelist. Here we see Dan's hone his craft, from his high school paper through to his first job at theFort Worth Press and on to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. Whether in Texas, New York, or anywhere for that matter, Dan was always at the center of it all—hanging out at Elaine's while swapping stories with politicians and movie stars, covering every Masters and U.S. Open and British Open for over four decades. The result is a knee-slapping, star-studded, once-in-a-lifetime memoir from one of the most important, hilarious, and semi-cantankerous sportswriters ever.

Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501122026

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LIFE ITS OWN SELF by Dan Jenkins Pdf

From the author of Semi-Tough, the hilarious continuing adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett—injured football player and TV sports commentator—featuring his wife, the former Barbara Jane Bookman, and his old friend, Shake Tiller.

Author : Geoffrey Peter Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 052141654X

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Grass Evolution and Domestication by Geoffrey Peter Chapman Pdf

An examination of the domestication of grasses and cereals over the last ten thousand years.

Author : Robert Kerr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137534071

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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum by Robert Kerr Pdf

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

Author : Dan Lalande
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649740

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The Drop Dead Funny '70s by Dan Lalande Pdf

This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s. It considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that year with a focus on its effect on the film industry and the art of big screen comedy, as well as the emergence of talents whose work influenced (or was influenced by) the zeitgeist of the decade. Covering popular titles like M*A*S*H, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, The Bad News Bears, Smokey and the Bandit and many more, it argues that the 1970s may rightly be considered the last golden age of film comedy.

Author : Robert Gugutzer,Barbara Englert
Publisher : Herbert von Halem Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783744507332

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Sport im Film by Robert Gugutzer,Barbara Englert Pdf

Lange Zeit von den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften ignoriert und als bloße Mainstream-Unterhaltung stigmatisiert, erlangt der Sportfilm zunehmend wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band verdeutlicht das vielfältige und vielschichtige, gleichwohl noch nicht annähernd ausgeschöpfte wissenschaftliche Analyse- und Reflexionspotenzial des Sportfilms. Die Beiträge der national und international renommierten Autorinnen und Autoren fokussieren im Besonderen den Sportspielfilm mit seinen zahlreichen Subgenres wie Football-, Basketball-, Box-, Olympia- und Kampfsportfilm. Das steigende Interesse am Sportfilm resultiert aus der wachsenden Einsicht, dass es sich hierbei um ein Genre handelt, das pointiert gesellschaftliche Zustände, kulturelle Ideologien sowie politisch-ökonomische Strukturen reflektiert und kritisiert. Der Sportfilm thematisiert historische Ereignisse, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen wie auch individuelle und kollektive (Anti-)Helden. Er gibt Aufschluss über kulturspezifische Besonderheiten des Sports und dessen Verflechtung mit anderen gesellschaftlichen Handlungsfeldern. Darüber hinaus inszeniert er zeitgeisttypische und zugleich allgemeingültige (Körper-)Ideale, Werte, Konflikt- und Handlungsmuster. Der Sportfilm reproduziert damit nicht nur gesellschaftliche und sportliche Wirklichkeit, sondern konstruiert sie im Medium einer emotional wirkmächtigen Bildsprache gleichermaßen mit.

Author : David McGimpsey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253336961

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Imagining Baseball by David McGimpsey Pdf

"... McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, and beleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a drastically over-analyzed subject, but, like an overachieving rookie, McGrimpsey produces a far better book on it than one would have ever thought possible." --Louis Jacobson, Washington Post "This is the most important critical book on baseball literature in many years." --Murray Sperber, author of Onward to Victory From Field of Dreams to The Natural, from baseball cards to highbrow fiction, this book explores the place of baseball in American popular culture.

Author : Julie Lobalzo Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628925791

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Crossover Stardom by Julie Lobalzo Wright Pdf

Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Stars in American Cinema focuses on male music stars who have attempted to achieve film stardom. Crossover stardom can describe stars who cross from one medium to another. Although 'crossover' has become a popular term to describe many modern stars who appear in various mediums, crossover stardom has a long history, going back to the beginning of the cinema. Lobalzo Wright begins with Bing Crosby, a significant Hollywood star in the studio era; moving to Elvis Presley in the 1950s and 1960s, as the studio system collapsed; to Kris Kristofferson in the New Hollywood period of the 1970s; and ending with Will Smith and Justin Timberlake, in the contemporary era, when corporate conglomerates dominate Hollywood. Thus, the study not only explores music stardom (and music genres) in various eras, and masculinity within these periods, it also surveys the history of American cinema from industrial and cultural perspectives, from the 1930s to today.

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512807172

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Tough Girls by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s—The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman—and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them. Also of interest— Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay