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...crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese Theater and the footprints and signatures of movie stars immortalized in concrete. Says Mike Sims, director of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce: "We've got stars in the sidewalk, but iron bars on the doors...
Luckily, though, some do. Roger Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns...
...disagree with Lance Morrow's statement, "Lindbergh is more an item of receding Americana than a hero who engages the popular imagination" [May 23]. To me, Lindbergh is still very much a hero and always will...
...course, Lindbergh is more an item of receding Americana than a hero who engages the popular imagination. Yet the impulse that he represented - exploration and adventure, pressing toward new physical and psychic limits - remains lively in many different areas: in space, in the depths of the oceans, in the mysteries of spiritual phenomena...
...atmosphere was jubilant when Feld unveiled his seven-minute romp through Americana at Manhattan's City Center last week. It was the first Broadway run for the troupe that Joseph Papp has housed at the Public Theater for all of its nearly three-year existence. This time the company danced to a real orchestra, playing in the pit, instead of to a solo piano or a tape. The stars were Christine Sarry, Feld's favorite ballerina, and Guest Artist Mikhail Baryshnikov...