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Forget the endorsements, though, and the swoosh and the dollar sign. They just get in the way, like some beaded curtain that keeps us from truly appreciating what we have. As recently as two years ago, the New York Times Magazine trumpeted the death of sports--games called on account of greed, stupidity and arrogance. "Sports are over," wrote Robert Lipsyte, "because they no longer have any moral resonance." What resonates from Jordan's performance in Game 5 was his utter refusal to quit, his willingness to let the team climb onto his weakened shoulders, his jumper over sickness...
...month before the curtain is supposed to rise, the Senate hearings on campaign-finance abuse are shaping up like the movie Titanic, an ambitious production that Hollywood can't seem to bring to the screen. By last week Thompson, an ex-actor who was chief Republican counsel in the Watergate hearings, was still looking for the basic elements of political spectacle: star witness, clear story line, boffo ending. Virtually every principal figure on the foreign-money side of the scandal plans to take the Fifth or has fled--bankrollers James Riady, Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak are living...
...Christmas of 1989, during the violent days of the Romanian Revolution, a taste of freedom filled the heart of the people. It revived memories in the elderly who experienced democracy before the war. It gave an ecstatic feeling to intellectuals who had heard about the world beyond the Iron Curtain. And it baffled the minds of those who were too young to understand why the only world they knew was changing...
...most seasoned theatergoers, Les Miserables is the epitome of what musical theater should be. The music sends chills along the audience's spines, even before the curtain opens. The revolving stage created a new and exciting dimension never before witnessed in theater. The plot, with more drama and fewer degrees of separation than a year's worth of "Melrose Place," can pull tears from the most cruelly critical eyes observing the show. And as the musical enters its second decade, one can bet that gushing audiences will still be running to the theaters, singing the show's familiar songs...
...leading lady in Hollywood. "The most important thing," she insists, "is to start. Already, you can see minds changing. They're not thinking so much in colors: white, black, Asian. They also recognize that the world market includes Asia--and that's a very big market out there. The curtain is going up, and now we're finally going to be able to have a good show...