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...American League Rookie of the Year in 1970, and then proceeded to disappear from the limelight faster than Zager and Evans...
...know,' he said, 'I don't like notoriety. I try to avoid the limelight, and I don't blow my own horn or anything. I just do my part. In this case, I'm just glad I came through. Incidentally, the hit raised my season's average to .667 and gave me five runs batted in for the game...
This week Park is stepping back into the limelight. Barring a last-minute change in plans, the dapper Korean is testifying before an open session of the House ethics committee, and the entire proceedings, expected to last three days, will be televised nationwide. His testimony gives the U.S. public its first full look into the Korean bribery scandal, which began to break open a year and a half ago. Says one congressional investigator who has heard Park's testimony: "It's a very sordid picture...
...Pechstein, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Lyonel Feininger-did have formal traits in common. Harsh, dissonant color that blared fitfully from an unrefined surface; jagged shapes, broken-bottle cubism, an appetite for the primitive in drawing; masklike faces, Gothic poses, extreme jumps of tone between limelight and gloom: the sum of these was not so much a style as a "look." For expressionism was largely an ethical matter, a display of exemplary anguish. It was one of the last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter...
...women's swim team will try to grab a share of the men's limelight this weekend as it competes at the Small College Nationals in Gainesville...