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Maybe laid-back Southern Californians don't like pregame shouting matches (imagine Bronx fans smiling at George Steinbrenner if he tinkered with the hallowed Yankee name). Or maybe the Angels faithful know that despite the garbled name, with Moreno they still have it good. In building Outdoor Systems, a small outfit based in Phoenix, Ariz., into the country's largest billboard-advertising company, which Infinity (now part of Viacom) swallowed for $8.3 billion in 1999, Moreno, 58, has been guided by a basic mantra: "When you take a risk, you're either thinking you're real smart...
Born and raised in the Bronx, Yannatos started his career in music early, already composing his own material at 11 years old. The only other career he ever considered was professional baseball, but that dream didn’t make it past the seventh grade. Every morning, Yannatos recalls, he would wake up at dawn to practice his instrument so that he could play ball in the schoolyard after class. He attended the Manhattan School of Music, and started his undergraduate career at Syracuse before transferring to the music department at Yale. He has since worked in a number...
...comparison, World's Fair is downright guarded. Doctorow calls it a novel. But the book reads like a memoir, and is unmistakably based on the author's early boyhood in the Bronx. The account begins with a bed wetting in the middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...
...cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book, understandable if Doctorow had written a memoir, but a lost opportunity in a novel about...
...rappin' is the latest form of talkin' the blues/ By the bro's from the Bronx in their burgundy shoes./And now their story's on the screen at the Multiplex./ (Ralph Farquhar wrote the script; Michael Schultz he directs.)/ And the boys who made the noise are in their very own show:/ Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow./ Then there's Blair Underwood, a kind of Poitier hunk,/ And Sheila E. (Prince's princess) in her foppery funk./ Now there've been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked...