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...else and lies to each other about which players we all like." As for the 1983 class, Miami agreed with the rest that the clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season at Denver but enjoyed a mortal's measure of success this year. Elway aside, Shula sensed he was legitimately alone in his admiration for the famed junior star at Pitt who had fallen on more than mean times as a senior. "Dan was the MVP of each all-star game I saw. We kept saying...
...style of athletic leave-taking seems to have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort...
...medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery along the perimeter of Dancers on a Plane, inspired by musings on the multiarmed Hindu god Shiva. "I was thinking about many-handedness," Johns explains. "I made the association with the handling of utensils, and put them along...
...these two extremes. Pritchard, a professor of English at Amherst College, succeeds admirably by emphasizing a fundamental principle in Frost's makeup: the sense of play. The poet, Pritchard maintains, held the universe in a teasing, ironic suspension, indulging his imagination in, as Frost put it, "play for mortal stakes...
...with Sister Mary Ignatius, played aptly by Elizabeth Franz, calmly explaining Catholic beliefs as if they were so many geometry theorems. Franz is the best part of the evening, bringing an understated madness to her part which save it from becoming, mere caricaturization. Explaining the difference between venial and mortal sins, Sister Mary lists sex outside of marriage, masturbation and hijacking as some of the more serious offenses. A parody of the Catholic belief that suffering is good, her eyes twinkle in delight as she explains in gory detail Christ's sufferings on the cross. Further, she insists that...