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...Solitude, set in Brooklyn, N.Y., and various short stories include lovingly written passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book...
...jump onto one of the many interactive virtual reality games or spend hours on the row of TV-themed pinball machines (including FM’s personal favorite, a South Park game where you get to kill Kenny). The maroon and mustard yellow color scheme screams ’70s, and the games confirm the vintage factor–both PacMan and Skee Ball were closed for repairs. But never fear: the blaring techno and seizure-inducing flashing lights coming from Dance Dance Revolution, the only machine you’ll have to wait for, will provide sufficient distraction...
...along with House Masters Tom and Verena Conley, attended the speech in the Kirkland Senior Common Room, in which Heyward described the changes that had taken place in the television industry since the “heyday of network news” in the 1960s and ’70s...
...Saigon glitters these days as it never did in the '60s and '70s. One night, Nga and I jump into a white taxi and cruise in a sea of motor scooters through neighborhoods dotted with shops selling bright clothes, utilitarian furniture, the latest electronics. We join a friend and his wife for dinner at a charming restaurant tucked away on a quiet residential side street. It serves splendid food from central Vietnam, a new sophistication in itself. Ten years ago, our host could not find a job. His wife kept the family afloat by running a small day-care center...
...cosmological scale. The deadball era gave way to the explosion of offense in the 1920s and ’30s, an expansion that continued through the postwar years until it was checked by the resurrection of dominant pitching in the ’60s and ’70s. The uneasy truce of the ’80s was shattered in the early ’90s, when the greatest period of home run tyranny began. How can one tell that the tide is now turning, that the precession of the baseball equinoxes has reached another critical point of transition...