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...which in just seven years has grown from a rookie gleaming with promise into a full-blown phenom with all the tools. No one knows exactly how many fantasy leagues have sprung up across the country since Journalists Dan Okrent and Glen Waggoner invented the game at the now defunct La Rotisserie restaurant in Manhattan, but guesses run to more than 5,000. Statistical services catering to the voracious needs of Rotisserians, for whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books: Okrent and Waggoner's original Rotisserie League Baseball, published by Bantam...
...maintain this casual tradition. Kleiler shows his films in locations as diverse as Chet's Last Call, the Brookline Arts Center, and the Boston Food Coop. At a screening I attended last year, a series of Nick Zedd shorts were shown on a portable screen in the now defunct Studio 54 on Queensbury Street in the Fenway. The audience lounged on the floor, passing around beer from a Bud suitcase to friends and strangers alike, while Lydia Lunch spouted profanities overhead...
...Dragon Lady in the now defunct comic strip Terry and the Pirates was voluptuous and deadly. Neither of those adjectives applies to Nancy Reagan. But after she was widely credited with organizing a coup by telephone against former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, the First Lady was depicted last week as a power-hungry manipulator more devious than any cartoon creature...
...Violets or the Swarthmore Little Quakers do not induce terror. At Transylvania College, the team nickname is not the Neck Biters but the Pioneers. Women's teams are caught between the quaint feminine names of the old days (Colleens, Lassies) and the carnage-producing names of male teams. The defunct Women's Pro Basketball League had the Fillies and the Does, but leaned toward unisex names (Pioneers, Stars, Pride, Diamonds and Hustle). Most colleges, however, simply put the word lady in front the men's nickname: the Lady Dragons or the Lady Monarchs. The Midwest Christian Lady Conquerors are deeply...
...what makes her work more than just well-polished fiction is her consistently vivid characterizations and keen insights into daily human experience. Aside from a solid mystery, A Taste for Death is an effective psychological exploration of post-war British culture. James investigates the social mores of a defunct nobility and the predicaments of the working class, as well as the poltical attitudes of radical Labour extremists...