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...Yorker, that dual bastion and mausoleum of literacy, where Arlen's "The Air" column regularly appears. The New Yorker's literacy is a curious one, of course, harking back to the most Anglophilic time in our history. It is a magazine to be read in a mock-British accent, or at least some boarding school equivalent--and Arlen is something of the quintessential New Yorker writer. It seems odd, then, to see him turn his meticulous attention to the quintessential chasm in American taste--namely television--but the results are often brilliant. Arlen doesn't so much watch television...
...always, there was in-flight banter between the astronauts and the Houston control center. When Crippen felt Houston was loading him with too many tasks at one time-realigning the inertial navigational unit, shooting a picture of the Southern Lights, confirming a message on the teletype-he asked in mock seriousness: "You mean all that right now?" To jog the astronauts awake, Houston piped in a loud country and western ditty about the shuttle called The Mean Machine. There was a somewhat more serious moment when Vice President Bush got on the radio from Washington to congratulate them on behalf...
They are not, in any sense, portraits of Beautiful People. Every wrinkle, bulge and sag in their flesh is colossally magnified: a face 9 ft. high is no longer a face but a wall of imperfections that mock the convention of "good looks." The face is always seen head on, like a mug shot or a passport photo; yet it is blown up to the size of some staring mosaic Pantocrator on a Byzantine a pse. These are, of course, the portraits by Chuck Close-familiar items in the art of the 1970s-now gathered in a retrospective of Close...
Generally, luck is something that happens to individuals. If a society or a century is considered as a whole, the random individual events that are set down to luck or fortune form more coherent overall patterns; large historical forces become discernible. But entire societies should not mock luck either. The classic Mayan civilization disappeared so strangely, so precipitously, that some massive stroke of bad luck must have been at work-a sudden plague, say, a viral riot...
...Second Game PENNSYLVANIA (0) AB R H BI Syrek, ss 3 0 0 0 Flacco, cf 3 0 0 0 Rom., c 3 0 0 0 Mock, dh 3 0 0 0 Smith, 1b 2 0 0 0 Carter, lf 3 0 0 0 Shuttle, 2b 2 0 0 0 Sailor, lf 1 0 0 0 Kupcha...