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...burned through his U.S. career like a comet. He belted three home runs on opening day in 1994, at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Then he flamed out, hitting just five more homers the rest of the season. After a couple of lackluster seasons, he came to Japan in 1996 to play for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Osaka, where he quickly became a star. "They gave me a chance to play here," he says, gratefully. "They made my career possible." This year he is paying them back. While Ichiro is busy putting his signature on American baseball, Rhodes is threatening...
...Dear Hawthornius,” Longfellow wrote, “not the comet himself can unfold a more glorious tail...
...continuing ride down the spiral of lefty public opinion, RALPH NADER just slid past MICHAEL DUKAKIS. It started on election night when Dukakis, not previously known as a scorching comet of unrestrained passion, told the Washington Post that if Nader cost Al Gore the election, "I'll strangle the guy with my bare hands." Nader demanded an apology, saying Dukakis was "reckless" and "out of control." "I was trying to be funny," Dukakis told the Boston Globe. "You have to have a sense of humor in this business." Responded Nader: "I have done Saturday Night Live four times. Who says...
...press-shy celebrity--to bemoan the loss of one's privacy while simultaneously courting the cameras at movie premieres and fashion shows. But Sade comes by her press shyness honestly. On the Chris Rock Show, she just sings her song and never says a word. Like a comet making its celestial rounds, she appears in the star-studded celebrity heavens infrequently and almost only when she has new songs to perform...
...press-shy celebrity - to bemoan the loss of one's privacy while simultaneously courting the cameras at movie premieres and fashion shows. But Sade comes by her press shyness honestly. On the Chris Rock Show, she just sings her song and never says a word. Like a comet making its celestial rounds, she appears in the star-studded celebrity heavens infrequently and almost only when she has new songs to perform...