Word: babe
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...team has permeated popular culture more than the Yankees. "The Pride of the Yankees," "The Babe," "Bang the Drum Slowly" and "The Scout" all filled the silver screen with pinstripes, and "Damn Yankees" filled a Broadway marquee. And who is the intangible god, the symbol of ultimate excellence in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"? The Great DiMaggio. And what written line better sums up the passing of a generation than Paul Simon's "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you."? Simon was bemoaning the loss of heroes in America...
...Curse of the Bambino means nothing. Despite the deja vu that accompanied the agony of one more missed opportunity for glory, Red Sox fans might actually have somewhere other than Babe Ruth on which to lay at least a portion of the burden of blame this year. From beginning to end, the 1999 post-season has been a showcase for the fallibility of many of the sport's officials, with umpires reaching a new pinnacle of incompetence during the Sox-Yankees series...
This year, success eluded a similarly-likeable ballclub against the Yankees, although the original Boys of Summer didn't have TV announcers thoughtfully brandishing Babe Ruth graphics, or considerately bringing up the Curse of the Bambino...
...best if at least one girl is straight. Straight actors playing gay (as in Eric McCormack, who plays lawyer Will Truman) go over better than openly gay actors (DeGeneres), and so on. Thus America is apparently ready for implicit fellatio as a punch line or for a foxy hetero babe's experimentation, while actual gay characters such as Will--though enjoying increasingly substantial roles--still have libido restrictions...
After 10 years of churning out Ani DiFranco projects, Righteous Babe Records has ventured into new territory with noise-pop pioneer Arto Lindsay's new album Prize. Lindsay uses a combination of machine-generated and natural, organic instruments to lay down a complex texture for his subtle poetry...