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...wafted back down to earth. But he's not ready to start flipping coins just yet. At 25-13-3 (and a six-notch cushion over mortal enemy Kansas City), he has yet to have a losing week, and yea, tho the soph blues weigh on him, that fog still parts a few times a week. The locks for Week 11: The Seahawks. Last week's cover-buster against Denver was portent for a slaughter in San Diego. The Steelers will win, and win big. The no-offense sleeper vs. Chiefs last Monday was a gut check for Kordell, whose...
JUNE 25, EARLY MORNING Before he was fully awake, Foale could hear the Russian romance music playing. Despite the fog of sleep, he smiled. Tsibliyev, it was clear, was already...
...stage structure which swayed and changed color and intensity in time with the chord changes of the music, then swiveled expectantly out at the audience, soliciting applause, great fingers of spotlight beams which converged on the stage and performers from towers set up all around the stadium. Mist from fog generators hung over the stage, making the intricate network of crossing beams seem almost tangible, like a gigantic multi-colored jungle gym which danced and contorted itself with wild abandon. Above, an airplance flew in circles, tethered to the stadium by a bright rope of white light. Throughout the stadium...
...film--a deadpan comedy cloaked in noir atmosphere (fog, dark alleys, secret meetings)--does not merely point a gnarled finger at French gullibility; it gets at the universal impulse to create alternative truths. Lying is a way to stay alive. "When Death comes," says Albert, "we'll lie to it. We'll say, 'You've got the wrong guy.'" This anti-Hero leaves an indelible taste, somehow both bitter and savory...
...remember Jackie Robinson. The tragic measure of his remarkable accomplishments is the hatred and bigotry he was forced to overcome. Fortunately, Arnold Rampersad's Jackie Robinson (Knopf; 512 pages; $27.50) arrives just in time to save the real man from his legend and to cut through the fog of a half-century's worth of nostalgia...