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...result of all this high financing and finagling is a redistribution, from poor fans to richer ones, of the baseball-going experience -- jock Reaganism. The luxury boxes introduced at the Houston Astrodome in 1965 are now a moneymaking fixture in most parks; the Toronto Blue Jays mint $35 million a year from leasing Skyboxes -- more dens for the haves to entertain the other haves. Someday a town might build a stadium consisting of a thousand skyboxes and six rows of bleachers. It would suit the owners -- men who seem bent on making baseball a pursuit to follow...
Parker's Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo series, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) and now widely available in U.S. record stores for the first time, is a miracle of sound restoration. Starting with mint- condition 78s (his collection numbers more than 20,000), Parker applies a variety of noise-suppression, equalization and enhancement techniques to produce a digital stereo re-creation...
Batman Returns could mark a happy beginning for Hollywood -- not because it might make a mint but because it dispenses with realism and aspires to animation, to the freedom of idea and image found in the best feature-length cartoons. Most directors think pictures have to be anchored in the narrowest form of reality: the one that Hollywood has presented since the dawn of sound 65 years ago. Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars...
Though Cafe Algiers is often packed with yuppies scrambling for the cramped seating and the mint tea, patrons of this newfangled shop just don't appreciate the art of a lengthy coffee break, Winer laments...
...BOTTOM LINE: A slow, sly mint julep of a novel...