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...plot, Space Jam is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy's most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn't renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts...
This does not mean that the contest will be an easy one, however. UMass is an athletic team with an impressive record against some difficult of play is akin to Dartmouth's--the team that gave Harvard the most trouble in the Ivy League...
MOVIES . . . SPACE JAM: It's finally here, the long-hyped Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny collaboration. In plot, 'Space Jam' is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy?s most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsey Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn?t renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside...
Something akin to this game of hide-and-seek with public symbols happened with his target paintings. Everyone "knows" what a target is--a test of a marksman's skill. But beneath its muteness a target is supercharged with an imagery of aggression: every target implies a weapon and someone aiming. This had an inescapable point in the mid-'50s, when politicians and all the American media were pounding into the collective imagination, like a 10-in. spike, the message that the whole nation was a target for Russian thermonuclear weapons...
...Middle Ages. Over lunch, Hamad did something that still seems unthinkable to many. He introduced one of his three wives, Jassem's mother, who was modestly dressed in an ankle-length suit rather than in the customary robe. As she spoke of improving the educational system, she seemed more akin to Hillary Clinton than the veiled wives of Arabia. Indeed, next week she undertakes an unprecedented task: an official visit to the U.S., unaccompanied by her husband...