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...LEONARD BUTCHER Seattle...
...Angeles Angels confides: "I'm one of the best defensive outfielders in the game." At 29, Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five big-league seasons. What Wagner does best is swing a bat lefthanded, and last week he was swinging well enough to tie for second in home runs (15), rank third in RBIs (46), and third in batting...
...teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...
...hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back to the compound she gets winged by a Boxer sniper. The kindly old Viennese doctor (kindly old Paul Lukas) tells her that amputation...
Shopping the French way can be a long day's journey from the corner épicene, past sidewalk stalls to the butcher, the baker and the wine merchant. Small shopkeepers still do 85% of France's retail business, but the prudent, finicky and habitual French are rapidly succumbing to a thoroughly un-Gallic habit: one-stop shopping à l'Américaine. The pioneer and fastest-growing example of the trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house...