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...amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...
...love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance -- that odd collection of tics and impulses -- over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy and self-besotted. If romance were purely...
Keepers of the p.c. flame have renamed New York's grand old Bronx Zoo -- to be known henceforth as the International Wildlife Conservation Park -- feeling that the word zoo has taken on unfortunate connotations. But to be fair, how about neutral names for animals whose names have unsavory second meanings...
...WELL is a magnet for cyberpunk thinkers, and it is there, appropriately enough, that much of the debate over the scope and significance of cyberpunk has occurred. The question "Is there a cyberpunk movement?" launched a freewheeling on-line FLAME-fest that ran for months. The debate yielded, among other things, a fairly concise list of "attitudes" that, by general agreement, seem to be central to the idea of cyberpunk. Among them...
...people are actors; they find great scenes between the cushions of O'Neill's rhetoric. This is why dramas like Anna Christie -- ponderous artifacts stocked with sullen, logorrheic characters -- are so often revived, with such imposing casts. Jason Robards has long fanned the flame on Broadway, / and London has seen many winning revivals: the Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms with Colin Firth and Carmen Du Sautoy, A Touch of the Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays...