A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

I'm not a sportswriter.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler