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...Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly fantasy -- the sport excluded blacks and kept...
...popular art, smoking was always chic. Fred and Ginger, Bogie and Bacall, every gangster, gunslinger and G.I. used cigarettes to emblematize their suavity, maturity, grit. Kids loved the lordly caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, purring, "Whoooo are yooooo?" while blowing his Alpha-Bits smoke rings. For the college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke...
...Savage Nights" does not have the poignancy of Angels in America, but shows more grit than the pre-packaged Academy-Award winning, "Philadelphia." It tells the story of a modern man's life without absolutes, excepting himself. And when one's absolute is visibly disintegrating, mayhem is sure to ensue...
...limo that appears in the baseball stadium's parking lot, complete with party babes in skimpy spandex, "Major League II" lets us know that success has corrupted the lovable bunch of ragtag Indians. In their new-found fame, the players have forgotten the humble roots that gave them their grit and winning quality. It's the dilemma posed by the American dream: how to move from rags to riches while still holding onto the down-to-earth, rough but honest rags that made the riches first possible...
...homes were tuned in), which will probably land it in the weekly Top 10. The Dahmer episode of Dateline (which also included a teary Nancy Kerrigan interview) got a 15.3 rating, the show's highest ever. Undoubtedly, the crime wave will continue -- and network news producers will continue to grit their teeth and hope their old journalism- . school teachers aren't watching...