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Rather than sympathizing with the oppressed, Oppenheim chooses to make them the butt of his feeble jokes. Of course, Oppenheim concludes his column by admitting that "this is probably poor advice," which begs the question why he bothered to give it in the first place. DAVID...
Surely the French deconstructionist Michel Foucault must be deployed. Football enacts the Foucaultian paradigm wherein all actions, even involuntary motions or "fakes" or failures (quarterback sacked), coalesce in meaning, and everything that the game organizes in the way of objects, rites, customs (the superstitious butt slapping, the narcissistically erotic Bob Fosse touchdown dances) constitutes a coherent whole--the game lui-meme. Foucault saw pro football as the quintessential mutation of the Classical quadrilateral of language into the Modern anthropological quadrilateral. Actually, he didn't. But it amuses me to think he might have. Ha ha, Boomer Esiason...
...restaurant, she talked about her new fame. She is, of course, recognized wherever she goes. "I don't particularly like it," she said, twisting the butt of a Marlboro Light from her cigarette holder and drawing a fresh one from a gold case. "You have to be nice and polite to people, whether you want to or not. But it's bearable. My life hasn't changed that much. Life is still fine, just slightly different...
RICK SCHRODER Former kid actor, now rookie on NYPD Blue, steps into big shoes and kicks butt...
...NYPD BUTT In the Marines, recruits get pinned. In fraternities, members get hazed. On NYPD Blue, new cast members show their buttocks. Rookie Rick Schroder was no exception...