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Offerings ranged from a reading of Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" to a reenactment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech...
These images fall against ones from this past semester: the metal bird straining against the sky. Large windows boarded up or lit through odd hours of the night. Naked lightbulbs illuminating empty stacks. A figure disappearing suddenly into one of the side entrances...
...wishful thinking, and there's certainly a lot of that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...
...counting on its Dale Earnhardts to help bridge a tricky divide. The purebred artistries of the NBA's Bird, Magic and Michael made that sport's gaudinesses easy to forgive; these days those criticisms are stickier. Any sport of individuals - and in this era, aren't they all? - needs the reflected light of its heroes to keep eyes off its pockmarks. In joining the big-money world of pro football, baseball, and basketball, NASCAR will now have to watch out harder than ever for its soul...
...Sports rise on their personalities, as the NBA did on the wings of Bird, Magic and Michael in the '80s and '90s, and NASCAR on Sunday lost its brightest star. But new levels of popularity (and demographic profitability) are not built on 49-year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...