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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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