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Anyone who still has an instant to spare can journey back in time and visit some of the many local historic sites and battlefields. But beware: the Shenandoah Valley can be addictive. Country singer Irlene Mandrell, who served as honorary fire marshall in the festival last year, was so enchanted by the beauty of the countryside and the warmth of the citizenry--"I just really had a good time," she says--that she is selling her home in the Nashville, Tenn., area and moving to Winchester with her family. --By Megan Rutherford...
...Instant Gratification...
Basketball doesn't have instant replay, but maybe the media coverage of campaigns should. That way, viewers at home could pause before passing judgment on Ariz. Sen. John S. McCain for calling Bush "Clintonesque" and rewind to the New Hampshire debate in which Bush told McCain that he was like Gore. We could watch in slow-motion Gore's sketchy and obviously strategic offer to Bradley on "Meet the Press" that the two men dispense with television commercials for the remainder of the campaign or when the Vice President charged in a debate in Iowa that Bradley had voted against...
...enough by March 7 to lower voter turn-out in Massachusetts and ruin Secretary Galvin's morning bagel. But in the long run, as the March madness of the primaries rolls into the summer and fall of the general election, I hope we won't continue to need an instant replay to see who fouled whom first but rather just be able to keep score on the issues...
...sports fan is not oriented toward the future; he is the retrospective creature par excellence. He travels forward with his eyes glued to the rearview mirror. His preferred modes of spectating are historical--the highlight reel; the classic NFL film with its sonorous, Homeric narration; and, most perfectly, the instant replay, which, of course, instantly historicizes the present...