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Champi snaps the ball and starts scrambling.He backs up to Yale's 15-yard line before tossingthe pigskin to monstrous tight end Peter Varney.Varney towers over Yale defensive end Ed Frankilnand snags the pass out of the air for Harvard'sversion of The Catch. The Stadium erupts; theCrimson has made the Elis' lead disappear. Harvardbeats Yale...
...Life of Great American Cities 32 years ago, Jane Jacobs declared that urban vitality depends on an eclectic mix of small stores. But that doesn't mean developers and bureaucrats haven't continued to pursue monumental, street- life-killing projects. Since 1981 the plan for 42nd Street envisioned four monstrous office towers. Lawsuits filed against that plan by neighborhood porno impresarios were beaten back, but they delayed the project for years -- enough time, fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around the turn of the century...
...somebody's got to ask: What was up with those monstrous turkey drumsticks we had for lunch yesterday? They looked like something out of a medieval feast at King Arthur's roundtable, and they tasted like they'd been sitting around under a heat lamp since then...
...ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-contra. We are witness to the highest divorce rate ever . . . Let the new generation in power know we are not only watching, but participating...
...Greek tragedy. Edward has a fanatical faith in the cleansing purity of blood vengeance. His wife Helen (Judi Dench), who holds deeply to a liberal belief in fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm of playwriting and becomes a struggle for psychic survival...