Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the dust settles on the deal struck between baseball and Pete Rose, it will still be nearly impossible to explain his banishment to the kids who love the game. Rose's bargain was the work of lawyers; its contorted logic was utterly devoid of the simplicity and finality that make the game so refreshing. It was a fine-print compromise that at once allowed Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to announce that Rose was banned from baseball for life for betting on his own team -- and Rose, an hour later in Cincinnati...
...jungle creeper, overnight, and was suddenly there one new morning, loud and outsize, full of lurid colors and maybe even a little poison. It was new, and it could be owned, wholly and instantly, by a new generation. It was what everyone was who heard it first and would love it forever. It was young...
MADAME SHERRY. Connecticut's revival-oriented Goodspeed Opera House unearths another musical charmer about love, money and mistaken identity...
Professional critics have mixed feelings about the guides. "I use it constantly," says Gael Greene, New York magazine's food maven. "When friends ask me for a suggestion about where to go, I use it to remind me of what I love." But Greene, like critic Elaine Tait of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also cautions that the Zagat ratings represent a "popularity poll," not an expert's informed judgment. "It's easy to be brave when your name's not on an opinion," says Tait...
...Love him or hate him, John Silber is impossible to ignore. The spotlight of controversy seems to seek him out. Earlier this year he was in the headlines with an audacious fund-raising plan to take out life-insurance policies on students and alumni. In May, Silber scored a double coup over neighboring + Harvard by playing host to Presidents George Bush and Francois Mitterrand of France at B.U.'s graduation exercises. Next month Silber's precedent-setting experiment at running the troubled public schools of Chelsea, Mass., gets under way in the glare of national publicity. And in a forthcoming...