Word: fanaticisms
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It is, of course, an outrage, even a form of cultural terrorism. Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, a Boston Red Sox fanatic, wrote thunderously on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times that the strike was "an act of defiance against the American people ... I appeal for...
Of course, that's not as easy as it sounds today. A dumb hero on the order of Sylvester Stallone just won't flv, for all intents and purposes. There's a thin line between innocence and sophistication, and it is there that Raiders manages to remain balanced. The movie...
What was known about Agca-especially the path of his travels from Turkey-remained remarkably fragmentary; the numerous accounts that appeared in the world's press were often contradictory. Turkish authorities were at least confident about one point: despite Agca's initial claims that he was associated with...
"I have killed the Pope." So proclaimed a triumphant message that Rome police found in a cheap hotel room rented by Mehmet Ali Agca. The statement was overconfident, but little else could be said with such certainty about the shadowy figure charged with shooting John Paul II. Despite intense interrogation...
Kaufman, 30, complicates matters by insisting that certain of his routines are dead serious. Says Allen, who admires Kaufman: "You can never tell if he is putting you on or not. It's like talking to a religious fanatic. Everything he does is strangely real to him." As a...