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...loudest baseball crowd in memory when the National League playoffs move to Atlanta Saturday, but it will add unique twists to playoff lore: the tomahawk chop and the war chant...
...tile floor, which tends to get a little sticky. And there's a depression in the middle. When there's a party, the depression fills up with what Peppercorn describes as "kind of a combination of beer and mud and other bodily fluids." It's known, in 10-Man lore, as "Lake Sereika," in honor of a former 10-Man resident who passed out there once...
...White and the Black Horses." He talks about each male's lost "Wild Man," that hairy masculine authenticity that began getting ruined during the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left their sons and went to work in the factories. The communion between father and son vanished, the traditional connection, lore passing from father to son. And with it went the masculine identity, the meaning and energy of a man's life, which should be an adventure, an allegory, a quest. Bly, with some validating help on television from Bill Moyers, has brought the masculine psyche onto the stage of Oprah- consciousness...
...opera setting, gets most of its humor from the audience; participants are asked to guess the murderer's identity and motive. A bit higher up the food chain, Forever Plaid uses the singers' plangent harmonics to camouflage a thin book. And you need a doctorate in Broadway shows and lore to get all the jokes in the new edition of Forbidden Broadway -- but for insiders, and good guessers, the musical malice has its own witty thrill...
Company myths can be misleading. At Nomura Securities, Japan's largest brokerage house, the corporate lore is rich with images of untiring devotion to the interests of the small investor. But when push came to shove during last year's disastrous decline in the Tokyo stock market, Nomura ignored its own myth. Rather than helping small investors, the company furtively paid out millions of dollars to a few large corporate customers to cover losses they had suffered in the market's fall. Even worse, Nomura had allegedly helped arrange loans to Susumu Ishii, the onetime leader of one of Japan...