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This one was primarily written by Larry Deck and Terry
Brown with some additional bits thrown in by The
Legendary Kevin Johnson. I think Larry was quite taken with the late Globe
reviewer Jay Scott's style and wanted a whack.
The reoccurring "dour Italian number"
references in this article and in other articles is a poke at sports editor
Dave Briggs. In a sports editorial a few issues previous, Briggs made this
weird analogy, attempting to compare one athlete to another. His line went
something like "Given a choice between a K Car and a Lamborghini, you
can bet I'd be driving off in that dour little Italian number."
The line about a war with "other casualties"
is a reference to a controversial book called Other Casualties that
had come out around this time. It was quite popular with the "the
Holocaust never happened but granting for a moment it did the Jews got what
they deserved" crowd. The book's author alleged he had historical
evidence that Eisenhower, when he was supreme commander of all allied
forces, basically ordered a genocide of the German people. Eisenhower
purposefully liquidated hundreds of thousands of Germans, if not millions,
by locking them in camps, executing some and simply withholding available
food and medicine from the rest. The author's evidence is slim, basing it
on some document in the archives that tried to estimate casualties on both
sides. There was a rather cryptic, unexplained "Other Casualties"
line item and the author ran with this.
The term "jugglacious" comes to us from the
Legendary Kevin Johnson who was very taken that year with the term. He
tried to use it in as many photo cut lines and headlines as possible.
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