Word: armchairs
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Then there are another breed, the armchair nihilists. They like their mayhem packaged in movies and VCR tapes. They watch them, Nietzsche on their bookshelves, secure from the effects of a culture of violence...
...bleachers -- baseball became the sport supreme. It's the one with the perfect, immutable dimensions and no clock to artificially limit the action; the one that values finesse and strategy over muscle and speed; the one that spews out mountains of statistics that can give any armchair fan the illusion of expertise. It has inspired nostalgic reveries, romantic paeans and volumes of close analysis that would give James Joyce scholars pause...
...journeying begins as it should, in libraries, and in particular with a 1927 work, The Way to Xanadu, by the British scholar John Livingston Lowes. He not only traced literary and mythological influences on the poet's imagery, but demonstrated that Coleridge (1772-1834) was a tireless armchair traveller. There was, in fact, a real Xanadu (more commonly called Shangdu) with the remains of real walls and towers. Marco Polo had been there. And there were in the world -- though not in the same place except on Coleridge's bookshelf -- marvellous caves of ice, mighty fountains, rivers that might well...
...loss. Bill did an extraordinary number of things extraordinarily well. He was TIME's drama critic, but while vigorously filling that post, he also wrote extensively about politics, social issues, the media, books (especially the mysteries he devoured) and the handful of nonteam sports of which he was an armchair savant -- tennis, in particular. Between stories he appeared frequently on TV panels -- you name the subject, he always seemed ready to express provocative but well-thought-out opinions -- he lectured, wrote books and free-lanced for other publications. After all that, he still had time for his amazingly wide...
White lilies perfumed the air outside the State Dining Room last Friday afternoon as Hillary Rodham Clinton walked in, sat down in a shiny wooden armchair under a portrait of a pensive Abraham Lincoln and asked, "Are we ready...