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...THEATRICAL PIECE, be it the oddest surreal composition or three hours of unstinting realism, must be the visible facet of a complete coherent reality lurking without the borders of the play. It must make sense, even if it is a sense never before seen. The job of the dramatist is to create a new world, or a new version of the world we know, and to put it in the same room with a paying audience...
...emphasis on doing his homework. He got plenty of help from an army of 100 bustling employees. Once established, Boesky sought to become the goodwill ambassador of the arbitrage trade. Yet he tended to make an uneasy impression with his smile, flashing a set of gleaming teeth at the oddest moments without any hint of mirth...
Offensive guard Watson certainly wins the award for oddest injury of the year. The senior lineman was running onto the field for the second half at Princeton when he tripped over a section of the runway--an area where long jump and high jump events are staged--and injured his ankle. Watson's status for today's game is unknown...
...been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...
Most seasons, there is little enough nobility left for the loser of the World Series, but this may be the oddest year, where the playoff victims are actually mourned and remembered. Because of a mysterious leg infection, possibly from a spider bite, the Angels were deprived of their best player, Rookie First Baseman Wally Joyner, for the three straight losses. Confounded only by the ump in a nine-inning two-hitter, Nolan Ryan struck out twelve Mets not just with an aching elbow but for four innings on a sprained ankle. "A lot goes into getting you this far," Ryan...