Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During its long gestation, the festival underwent repeated changes of rationale. In the 1970s it was touted as a way to counter the publicity fallout from New York's fiscal crisis, a prototype "I Love New York" campaign. Later, as other cities staged their own festivals -- including Los Angeles in 1984 and again in 1987, and Chicago in 1986 and again this spring -- a New York event became an issue of civic pride. By the time it finally got under way June 11, its goal was seen as mainly aesthetic. According to Founder Martin Segal, a financial consultant and chairman...
...sport to Tyson. "I don't like sports; they're social events," he says, though he holds individual athletes in casual esteem. The basketball star Michael Jordan, for one ("Anyone who can fly deserves respect"), or the baseball and football player Bo Jackson. Tyson says of Jackson, "I love that he's able to do both, but I heard him say that he doesn't like the pain of football. That makes me wonder about him. Football is a hurting business...
BULL DURHAM. A "natural" ballplayer (Tim Robbins) is a natural disaster to his coaches in the arts of baseball (Kevin Costner) and love (Susan Sarandon). But all are fun to watch: plenty of smart talk, laughs and warm...
...readers of Donaldson's biography. Words made the man named Cheever, both in his fiction and in his elegant, often unsettling comments on himself and everything he loved and hated. Unfortunately, his biographer can offer only sparing, truncated and oblique evidence of his subject's distinctive gift. The snippets that are included simply underscore the absence of so many others. Here is Cheever, taking tranquilizers as a prescribed substitute for alcohol, complaining that the medication made him feel as "stagnant as the water under an old millwheel." On a visit to the University of Utah in 1977, the author grows...
...Barth asked me the question three times, almost as Jesus Christ asks Peter, 'Do you love me?' " Smith recalls. "I found that I could not really answer the question truthfully. I thought I was free, and yet I was not sure...