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Whether or not Rose is voted into the Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible in 1992, he may have achieved the kind of immortality that goes beyond fading type in the record books. America may celebrate winning, but what really fascinates the country is a fall from greatness. Bill Buckner's fielding career is overshadowed by the memory of an easily hit ball rolling inexplicably, eternally through his legs in the tenth inning of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. Rose in his 24 seasons set records for hits (4,256), games played...
...says. "The whole thing has got mythologized to the point where it's just a bunch of rubbish." Greil Marcus, who writes formidably on popular and radical culture (the recent Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold a bill of goods about the '60s, as if it were some kind of social Golden Age, when there was no Viet Nam, no social conflict. There weren't any Negroes, nothing bad happened. You have Woodstock, but you don't have the war. You have Jim Morrison as some image of sexual...
...Niro as his executive vice president. "My two dogs come to work with me." There will also be some indulgences at the film center. One will be the TriBeCa Bar and Grill, a restaurant that De Niro is opening with financial investments from such pals as Sean Penn, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. De Niro's new Hollywood-on-the-Hudson may be an upstart, but it will not suffer for lack of connections...
...apartment without a warrant and even reminded the agents to check the cellar storage space. But when Bloch and his wife Lou returned from a trip to New York City, they found a valuable chandelier cracked, the windows open and the air conditioning running. They submitted a bill to the FBI. To Bloch's great irritation, the FBI also confiscated his private papers and only belatedly returned a checkbook, with just three blank checks, so he could pay some bills...
...manufacturers were dubbed "Adidas and the Seven Dwarfs." But by the early 1980s, while West Germany's Adidas remained No. 1 outside the U.S., fast- rising Nike dominated the American market. The company was started in 1972 by current chairman Philip Knight, 52, a University of Oregon graduate, and Bill Bowerman, 78, his former track coach, who used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike's sales sprinted from $270 million in 1980 to $920 million...