Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the fiery economy have done to clean things up, smelly garbage, careering cabs and dog poop still assault New Yorkers daily. Most residents become inured to the offal they encounter. It's a survival mechanism but also a matter of pride. So it was a bit embarrassing last week when the mayor got ruffled by an art exhibit, of all things...
Before we get to Garth Brooks' new pop-rock album, Garth Brooks in...The Life of Chris Gaines (Capitol), let's talk a bit about sports. Five years ago, when basketball star Michael Jordan decided to give pro baseball a go, he was widely ridi-culed by sportswriters. In actuality, though, Jordan's sports switch was one of the bravest things he ever did. It showed he was willing to compete even in an arena in which he clearly wasn't the best. After all, sports isn't just about winning--it's about trying too. O.K., maybe...
...being co-produced by Brooks' company and music producer Babyface--Brooks adopted the persona of Gaines for his new CD. The cover shows the country king made over as Gaines, black hair swept over his eyes, an artsy soul patch of hair below his lip. He looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks. Inside, there's a fictional bio: "[Gaines] was born August 10, 1967...in 1989 Chris debuted his solo album, Straight Jacket...the album spent an extraordinary 224 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart...
...every chapter Doyle mixes high, historical romance with low, earthy humor. At times Henry is a bit too much the Irish Everyman, modeling so many Celtic vices and virtues that he seems legendary instead of human. What saves Henry from becoming a mere myth, though, is Doyle's attention to detail, his warty realism. For all the great events he plays a part in--the battles, elections, conspiracies and crackdowns--Henry never dissolves into the scenery but stands out against it in painful, proud relief...
Stephen Jay Gould's article on smart genes [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13] was informative and clarifying, but when did he make the memory association between "a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite"? Or are American bees just that bit further up the dental evolutionary scale than our local species? AMANDA STILTZ Cardiff, Wales...