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What makes a pop song glisten with perfection? For George Gershwin, it is the simple joy of melody, wittily phrased; think of "S'Wonderful," a song whose lyrics would be silly if its music were not really so wonderful. For the Beatles, it might be mundane working-class life appreciated for all of its unique, fantastical truth--take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which reshapes ordinary objects into a stunning psychedelic spectacle...
...school names are back because many of those cumbersome numbers that baseball fans love more than the game itself (whisper the statistics 755, 56 or 61 softly enough to their real fans, and eyes will glisten) are in danger of changing. Cal Ripken Jr. sets a new record for consecutive games every time he steps onto the field. Juan Gonzalez may beat the record for RBIs that Hack Wilson set in 1930. The Yankees threaten to win more games this year than the 1906 Cubs, who won 116. Rookie pitcher Kerry Wood tied the record of 20 strikeouts...
Texas voters over the weekend overwhelmingly added an invaluable $1 billion tax cut to George W. Bush's resume, giving the Lone Star governor a credential that will glisten on a national stage if he chooses to seek the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. The message? When George W. Bush says "No new taxes," he means it. If only his father could have kept such promises...
...absence of hard cash will impact many other facets of daily life besides begging in public places. Wishing wells won't glisten with scores of pennies, wallets will grow slimmer and no longer will people experience the momentary pleasure of finding a coin on the ground. But panhandling is the facet that deserves the attention of all levels of government before money inevitably becomes a completely electronic entity...
...visual navigation difficult by submerging the landmarks pilots usually look for. Long stretches of highway and railroad tracks were invisible; river islands had disappeared; the river channels themselves could not be distinguished from the water that had spread onto once dry land. Mountains of strip-mined coal that usually glisten in the sun south of St. Louis poked only their very tips above the water. At the Kirkwood Athletic Association complex in Kirkwood, Missouri, only the dugout roofs could be seen above the water covering baseball diamonds, and a nearby golf course looked like a series of small green islands...