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...right mind would spend a beautiful August Saturday in the bleachers at Wrigley Field cheering 27 men in suits -- plus the mercurial Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds -- as they bicker over revenue sharing. But put Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds or Frank Thomas in a Motel Six parking lot in North Dakota with a bat and ball, and fans will flock. Maybe Greg Maddux or Jimmy Key will show up to do the pitching. That's the enduring glory of baseball -- it has survived war, fixed games, the Depression, racial segregation, beer commercials and artificial turf. A sign held...
...Bible's sins: incest, rape, murder; and the twentieth-century's modern medical break throughs of the penile implant and transsexuality. Wishman wrote and directed all of her 25 films. And she often worked on a shoestring budget which gives her films the kitschy look of a cheap motel room. From the frolicking breasts in the nudist campus to the crazy platform shoes and the velvet decors of the '70's extravaganzas these films are like no other...
Sixteen hours of anger, sorrow and laughter filled eight microcassettes, each smaller than a bar of motel soap. Humphreys transcribed them, suggested a . few cuts and additions, and sent nearly 300 pages north to Manhattan, where her agent, Harriet Wasserman, read the manuscript in a few hours and sold it in a matter of days. "What language! What imagery!" says Wasserman, who certainly should know. She also represents Saul Bellow...
...which a bomb had exploded en route to Hawaii in August 1982, killing a teenage passenger. Hawk extended warm thanks to Awad for his role in convicting Rashid for that murder. All told, the event lasted 45 minutes. Admitted a U.S. official: "It was kind of the Motel 6 version of a ceremony...
...South Korea: Park Su Bom was found outside a motel in January, dying of exposure and blood loss from a penis amputation; his wife and mistress are under investigation...