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...survivor of an era of drugs, booze and crazed behavior, what was the moment that helped you transition to the next stage of creative fulfillment? -Mak Wolven in Den Haag, NetherlandsWhen hangovers started turning into surgical recovery days, I figured I couldn't lose this time or this gift. I had to do something about...
Aaron was pure, but baseball has issues every era...
...runs. After that season, baseball lowered the pitching mound, from 15 in. to 10 in. Advantage, hitters. Over the next five years, Aaron averaged 41 homers. An incredible feat, but it's fair to ask, What would have happened if the mound hadn't been lowered? Bottom line: every era is imperfect. Bonds' is the steroid era...
Before a Brooklynite became the most popular opera singer of her era, aspiring divas tended to hail from Europe, where they were expected to train, then seek the attention of the major opera houses. Beverly Sills, the redheaded child radio star whose mother dreamed she'd be the "Jewish Shirley Temple," stayed home, loyally working her way up through New York's "second" City Opera and drawing raves as a brilliant coloratura soprano in shows from Manon to Cleopatra. Though she guested around the globe, the Met's Rudolf Bing, who scoffed at U.S.-trained artists, refused her a major...
...Mindlessly flipping through the postcards to see if there was something worth sending home, I discovered that these postcards had already been sent home. Unlike the overpriced-faux-war-era postcards sold throughout the rest of the town in gift shops and boulangeries, some of these postcards actually dated back before WWI (with the postage stamp to prove it). Many bore the fast, scrawled messages written from soldiers to their mothers, brothers and lovers, briefly, and hopefully, describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre...