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...concerns Bradman's last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948, when he needed just four runs to average 100 in Tests but, having been applauded all the way to the crease and given three cheers by the English players, was bowled anticlimactically for nought. Watching from the press box, Fingleton and his mate, bowling great Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly, were beside themselves with mirth. Growden defends them: "And why not? They were laughing at a god with feet of clay ... Laughing at an old antagonist who'd just got his comeuppance...
Last year Hollywood released several movies critical of the war on terrorism. Despite featuring such stars as Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon, they fizzled at the box office. An American Carol pumps up the war, as the ghosts reveal to Malone the "real America," with visits to ground zero and a backyard family picnic at the home of his nephew, who is about to ship out to Iraq. And though conservatives aren't exactly known to rush the box office like comic-book fans, McEveety remains sanguine. "It's great business to service all audiences, including conservative audiences," he says...
...what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken...
...existence. We’ve read Hemingway’s memoirs and prepared to go without meals for days at a time. We’ve joined Facebook groups proclaiming “I Picked a Major I Like, and One Day I Will Probably Be Living in a Box.” We’ve built up our quads so we can climb to our eighth-floor garrets with comparative ease. We’ve even learned the warning signs of consumption in case things should take a turn for La Boheme. Each summer, we intern...
...dismantled and recycled. During an intermission in the afternoon’s events, Christo and Jeanne-Claude stepped out onto a balcony by the ICA’s theater. In the warmth of the afternoon sun, Jeanne-Claude tipped the ash of her cigarette into a rectangular metal box that she pulled from her bag. She seemed slightly annoyed by questions: “The answer to that is on our website.” Christo was more forthcoming.“There is this unstoppable urge to do a work of art. There is no justification required...