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There is this consistent emblem in Ackroyd's More and Milton and Blake: London is the pivot into eternity. More's city, piously Catholic, fades into Camelot-like legend, shunned yet desired by Milton, who cannot regain it, all his monumental words raising only a pandemonium finally becalmed by Blake, who walks its shadows to find the city become Jerusalem. All three men were Londoners--as is Ackroyd. "It's always been ugly, a vandalized city," the novelist and biographer said recently. "But I hope it stays that way because that's its nature." His next book, he says, will...
Athletes in many sports, of course, have long had histories of run-ins with the law, from tennis pro Jennifer Capriati with her marijuana arrest (the charges were later dropped) to baseball legend Pete Rose and his gambling travails. But Benedict and Yaeger describe an entrenched culture of cover-up and tolerance of criminal behavior in the NFL. And they devote nearly a chapter to the Vikings, listing 15 players entangled with police since Green was named the team's head coach...
DIED. STU UNGAR, 45, professional poker player; of as yet undetermined causes; in Las Vegas. Ungar, a legend on the gambling circuit, won poker's World Series for the third time...
There is a midrash (a legend) that explains, "the further you are from Sinai [the moment of revelation], the more you are diminished." Bak varies the notion of family lineage in From Generation to Generation through a series. An elder from the village of Vilna, gazes upon versions of himself, his body decreasing in size, each time preserving his old age. The ancestors bless their descendents but stare toward the earth, without joy or life. It is as if these men have always been old, but one cannot tell which man is the oldest. Each generation, now with the knowledge...
...object of my bebabblement is the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a new game due in stores next week exclusively for the Nintendo 64. To those of you who have never played a video game, or even seen one, my rapture will sound goofy. But trust me. In some ways Zelda is every bit as compelling as the best painting I've ever seen, or even the best movie. The experience of a good video game is transcendent; Zelda is a great video game. At this moment, for instance, I'm at Lake Hylia in the mythical land...