Word: barts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home Plate by James Reston Jr. (HarperCollins; $19.95) is a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never quite works. The irony is too heavyhanded, the juxtapositions too stark, the character of Rose too pathetic in his heedless self-destruction. Oddly enough...
Similar grisly rites apparently took place at the 160-acre Texoma Hunting Wilderness owned by Charles B. ("Bart") Bartholomew, in Bryan County, Okla., about 100 miles northeast of Dallas. For roughly $8,000 each, hunters could stand in a fenced field where mountain lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were prodded out of cages into their gunsights. State and federal agents raided the multimillion-dollar operation and arrested Bartholomew. His trial ended last week in a plea bargain; he will spend six months in jail, do 400 hours of community service and forfeit his "preserve" to the state. County district...
RELIGION A Bible for Bart Simpson fans...
...beginning, the American Bible Society decided to develop Scripture for kids. Translators spent hours on end watching Sesame Street and TV cartoons, puzzling out ways to make the Bible understandable for youngsters ages 5 to 13 -- the Bart Simpson generation. But when versions were tested in local churches, adults reported back that they needed stripped-down Scripture...
...Celebrity Centers," a chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology...