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...Arctic common room, however, we were laid low by the image of the Canaanite deity Baal, son of El, come forth in all his crimson glory. He informed us that the answer to our problems lay within the body of knowledge we had accumulated over the past four years. Idol worship, he boomed, is the only way to regenerate Harvard, and indeed modern society as a whole...
...Tombamaniacs went nuts--further nuts, that is. The din of their air horns sounded like a Swiss national-emergency call. At least half a dozen fan clubs, most of them from the vicinity of their idol's native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what...
That is, of course, unless you're one of the idol-worshipping fans who drool all over their poster-puttied magazine pin-ups of androgynous lead singer Brett Anderson, in which case all of the songs on the album will take on a deeper sensual connotation. If you're not one of the die-hard few, however, you might be just a bit put off by the continual lyric references to dogs, daddies, pigs, and heroin(es). While the meandering melodies and melancholy rhythms of the songs are innocuous enough, the incessant darkness of the lyrics is distracting and almost...
...great demand. At its worst, this trend has spawned yuppie cuisine and a surfeit of goat cheese, but despite these excesses there is something to be said for eating well. And much has been said, particularly by Fisher, by California chef Alice Waters, and by my personal idol Julia Child--each of whom is paid tribute in Joan Reardon's recent book, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table...
This vote of no confidence gave the bond market the aspect of a fierce pagan idol that can never be appeased. No sooner does the market receive one form of tribute than it finds fresh problems to worry about. Among other things, investors saw a new threat of inflation in promises by House Speakerin-waiting Newt Gingrich and other Republicans to cut taxes next year without any credible program for restoring lost revenues. "Tax cuts are not always good for the bond market,"said Joseph Carballeira, the head of U.S government- securities trading at Smith Barney. "Initially, there...