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...past, Morelli has been hindered bycatching both games of a doubleheader. ButNahigian said that freshman third-baseman AronAllen will spell Morelli in the second game of afew twinbills to give the senior a well-deservedrest...
...Afew therapists thought that Goetz may have been pushed to violence by two traumatic incidents in his life: a previous mugging, and his father's trial on a morals charge. Goetz was attacked by a mugger in 1981 and thought his assailant had escaped justice. Actually the man served a jail term of four months. When Goetz was 13, his father, a wealthy businessman in Rhinebeck, N.Y., was convicted of sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys. After an appeal, the father pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, disorderly conduct. "One can hypothesize that the trauma his father sustained made...
...AFEW YEARS ago, when The Sex Pistols first toured America, this country began to be conscious of a strange movement, an unprecedented mix of nihilistic attitudes, bizarre fashion and screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks...
...AFEW WEEKS AGO a theater showed a coming attraction for Rocky III. The screen darkened, the familiar trumpets blared, and then the title appeared, one enormous letter after another. With each successive letter the audience's hissing grew a little louder. By the time Sylvester Stallone appeared, eyeing himself in a mirror, flexing his pectorals, the audience's laughter-almost drowned out his eloquent if terse exclamation: "Nothing is real if you don't believe in yourself?" There's a lot to be said for coming attractions...
...gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said he: "It was not the kind of story I would have run. It's got nothing to do with Brown's ability as Governor." Says Kevin Starr, a fourth-generation Californian who was formerly Afew West's Northern California bureau chief "The mentality there seems to be 'The Ten Best Places to Get Pate When You're Marching with Cesar Chavez.' It's a strange combination of hyperchic and diffusedly leftist outrage at the corruption of America...