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...benefit the players (they are paid only from the start of the regular season) and threatening to stop play only when the crowds start coming around Memorial Day. Said the New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson: "We wanted to try to take some money from the war chest the clubs have been stockpiling." Indeed, the baseball owners demonstrated little faith in the negotiations: they had built up a strike kitty and taken out strike insurance paying them around $1 million...
P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...
wounds, He fell on his chest not during war but in peace, When spring ignites the stars of love...
...fell on his chest and closed
DIED. Roland Barthes, 64, France's preeminent literary critic; of chest injuries he sustained when hit by a car five weeks ago; in Paris. In the first of his 13 books, Writing Degree Zero (1953), and in his masterpiece, Mythologies (1957), he argued that the dogmas, idols and "myths" of the middle class dominate literature and society at large because they are wrongly interpreted as the eternal truths of nature. All of literature, he said, is "a space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and crash...