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Basketball, however, is a distant third in the sports boredom race behind the Superstars and NHL hockey. The former was once a good idea that Bob Seagren, Kyle Rote Jr., and Reggie Jackson all pitched in to ruin...
That, however, is nothing compared to what basketball captain Jeff Hill told me last week about the shabby treatment the administration gives the hoopsters. It seems the University was content with having the tall guys take the MTA to the airport for their distant road games, which is fine if you're Pencey Prep...
Unlike the relatively simple procedures for shipping crude oil across vast stretches of ocean, importing foreign gas to the U.S. poses a cluster of complex problems-financial, political, technical and environmental. Though some imported gas is now seeping in from distant points, and efforts are under way to bring in more, it will probably be five years at least before any appreciable supplies of such fuel enter the U.S. to help warm homes and run factories. Even then the amount is unlikely to fill more than a small fraction of U.S. demand...
Before he achieved celebrity status, Billy was a homebody whose idea of distant places was an occasional vacation in Florida's Walt Disney World with Sybil and the six kids (ages five months to 20 years). Now he travels as much to get out of Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody...
...Ostend, the Belgian seaport and watering place, in 1860. His parents ran a little junk shop (it also sold masks for the yearly Ostend Carnival), and Ensor's childhood was obsessed by "our dark and frightening attic, full of horrible spiders, curios, seashells, plants and animals from distant seas, beautiful chinaware, rust and blood-colored effects, red and white coral, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen." Between the immense stolidity of its bourgeois life and the thinness of its cultural milieu, Ostend in the late 19th century must have been one of the most stuffy places in Europe...