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Intellectuals love baseball, and they read sweet meanings into it. The game "has a mythic quality," Bernard Malamud thought--the myths being innocent democracy, recovered childhood, a harmless, universal cast of heroes (from Ruth and DiMaggio long ago to McGwire and Sosa in last year's memorable season) and a sentimental reconciliation, over peanuts and Crackerjacks, between the college-educated and the working...
...Still, the Mark McGwire of Series movies is John Sayles' story of the Chicago Black Sox, "Eight Men Out" (1988). The tale of how eight Chicago White Sox players threw the 1919 World Series has everything -- high rollers, legendary ballplayers and a fall from grace that gave Bernard Malamud the inspiration for "The Natural." It's a homer, Simpson...
...biggest strike against the early deadline was dealing with January papers and exams and then go immediately into intensive writing," said Sage, whose thesis was a comparative study of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bernard Malamud. "While I was writing, it was horrible and emotionally exhausting...
Bennington College has long been known for its artsy, innovative ways. Martha Graham pioneered modern dance by leading her students twirling across Bennington's enormous, grasy common. Theodore Roethke, W.H. Auden and Bernard Malamud cultivated their literacy talents among Bennington's white clapboard dorms with green shutters, according to the New York Times Magazine. Buckminister Fuller build one of his first geodesic domes there...
...already delivers 10,000 channels, and the only obstacle that prevents it from carrying live TV pictures is the bandwidth (or carrying capacity) of the data lines. Some video clips -- and at least one full-length video movie -- are already available on the network. And last spring, writer Carl Malamud began using the Internet to distribute a weekly "radio" interview show called Geek of the Week. Malamud is undeterred by the fact that it takes a computer about an hour over a high- speed modem to capture the 30 minutes of sound that a $10 radio can pick up instantly...