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...baseball pitcher whom not even New York City can enlarge or exaggerate stands atop the hill and the heap at 21. Without counting the mound, which is also situated about ten inches above the rest of the field, Dwight Gooden in just two major league seasons has risen like an illusion of a fastball to a height somewhat loftier than 6 ft. 3 in., and a level nearly beyond imagination. When Sandy Koufax says, "I'd trade anyone's past for Gooden's future," that includes Walter Johnson's, Grover Cleveland Alexander's, Bob Feller...
...heaven that segregates poets and prose writers suits Brodsky. The supre macy of prosody is a theme he plays backward, forward and sideways throughout his book. If metrical language is the pinnacle of civilization, Brodsky is free to put poets at the top of the heap. He anoints Auden as "the greatest mind of the twentieth century," a brash though not unattractive idea if readers allow themselves to be swept along by Brodsky's passionate discourse on Auden's premonitory war poem "September 1, 1939." The work is reimagined rather than reduced by the usual critical method...
Certainly, there is no way to prevent a percentage of the student body from spending three years in nefarious Radcliffe Quadrangle, upon which students heap even more abuse than on the Kool-Aid art that not so long ago gave it a sticky winter coat of many colors. But there are alternatives to both the current lottery system and to completely "random" solutions...
Following an 8-0 non-league start and a 6-2 record in the opening round of league contests, Harvard was atop the Ivy heap and all gussied up for its date with destiny...
Altman does an equally amazing job of translating Shepard's fascination with the role of myth. In Fool For Love, and other Shepard dramas, characters provide conflicting versions of the past, leaving the audience to sift through an ash-heap of half-truths and seeming contradictions. Altman, ingeniously, lets the camera paint the past, while the characters consciously or unconsciously falsify it. In one scene, May describes her mother holding her hand so hard she fears her bones might crack. The camera shows mother and daughter walking at a distance. Eddie describes the night he and his father stroll silently...