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...when he hit 61 and 62, Chicago fans threw him a little party, Dominicans in New York City have taken to writing Sosa's name and home-run count in soap on buses and car windows, and more than 100 reporters have credentials to the Cubs' clubhouse. Infielder Mickey Morandini, looking for a seat in the dugout before a game last Thursday, asked, "Is this the player bench or the media bench...
...wanted to get kids excited about computers, you could take the time and trouble to design first-rate software that really turned them on. Or you could make computer mice shaped like cartoon characters. That's what Delta Millennium has done. Their mice are available in Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Little Mermaid and other Disney motifs for $40 each...
...another way, they are still spinning--for themselves this time. And, as Mickey Kaus pointed out in Slate in January, they're doing it without "a nanosecond of contrition," at least in public, for their former spin on Clinton's behalf. But then consistency is a hobgoblin of the pre-spin mentality. Although the truth about Monica, or something close to it, was forced out of President Clinton, we are still in the golden age of spin. Spin as a metaphor derived from "putting a spin on the ball," and meant putting your own twist on the truth...
...GOOD SHIP MICKEY MOUSE...
Most important is the films' mood: romantically retro. The sunny disposition, the swooning sentiment, the neat haircuts whisk you back to the pastel '50s--to Doris Day comedies and Gene Kelly musicals--and, even earlier, to the studied innocence of MGM's teen tuners starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, but with a little sex. And even that is so sweet it's tweet. (In Broadway Damage two young lovers climb up a tree for their first kiss. No kidding.) It makes sense that O'Haver, who evokes the retro spirit with such expert elan, has signed with Universal Pictures...