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PETE SAMPRAS Bum thigh muscle. Will miss Italian Open, maybe French--only Slam he's never...
...years after his death, the Oscar-winning Hungarian composer is at last getting acclaim for such disciplined yet intensely passionate works as the soaring violin concerto he wrote in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz, newly and brilliantly recorded by McDuffie, Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony. Forget the dumb critics' bum rap--this is great music...
...blood and "interpreted" by a troupe of dancing lizards he trained himself. Could you top that? Not likely. And so we stress and complain like mad. Sometimes, to see the glum, hopeless looks across this campus, you'd think the North Face factory had burned down (ba dum bum...
...Tuesday's game, McSorley and Brashear first fought just two minutes into the contest. Brashear, a muscular 28-year-old, was clearly winning, but the referees allowed the fight to proceed and the veteran McSorley was humiliated. McSorley, a battered 36-year-old with bad wrists and a bum shoulder, said after the game that it was his frustration with the fact that he can no longer fight the way he once did that drove him to the sneak attack. Brashear's helmet flew off as he crashed to the ice, causing a severe concussion...
...first, it must have seemed like indoor recess. Instead of long division, kids thought, we get to see a movie! Then the one-reel drama began, and all pleasure ended. Nick, the antihero of Benefits of Looking Ahead, foresees his future as a lonely bum--unless he builds a table in Shop. In Habit Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly...