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...recreation that most remarkably reveals those double-fault lines in American marriage?a want of kindness, a shortage of manners. The swift transformation of a game once played mainly by the happy few?mannerly, immaculately clad and, to the popular mind, a bit sissified?into a mass middle-class mania, which may soon be pursued by more women than men, has already worked a number of apparently permanent small changes in American social life...
Fashion's epidermis epidemic bared the thighs in 1969 with the mini. More recently, the midriff and lower back were boldly revealed by skimpy little halter tops. Where could designers go from there? Up. Flesh-o-mania has now reached the shoulders and the neck. The latest in deshabille: the strapless look...
During their one-week tour, the Classics rode on the crest of the basketball mania that is sweeping Puerto Rico. "The fans don't know much about the game," says Kallaugher, "but they get totally shitfaced and go around following their home teams." Kallaugher says "it was really kind of a big ego trip. We were celebrities...
Defensively, then, I want to make like Roger Angell, who after revealing his obvious mania for baseball, commences a long argument about how there's nothing to really care about in this society anymore, and at least a good World Series brings people together in sharing the rarity of a strong and healthy emotion. With similar protesting-too-much, I want to claim that Eric Ambler is, well, almost literature. Riddled with the truths of human and historical behavior. Not just a decadently engrossing game...
Actually the presentation of material without commentary-what we fancifully refer to as "objective" news-has old Amer ican roots. We have long had a mania for raw statistics and facts of every kind. Even when our press has been particularly partisan or else heavily committed to background and interpretation, the demand for unadorned facts has rarely slackened. This taste was reinforced by our pioneering social science surveys of the early 20th century and it was further elaborated in the 1930s by a series of innovative photographers and cinematographers. William Stott of the University of Texas at Austin has recently...