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...when the postseason rolled around, Winfield carried a huge monkey on his back, a veritable gorilla. In 1981, his first season with the Yankees, his stellar play brought the American League championship back to the Big Apple. He hit a patch of ice in the World Series, however, eeking out only one hit in 22 at bats. This prompted the first of Steinbrenner's many diatribes against his star, in which he coined the epithet Mr. May, a contrast with the high priest of pressure and Yankee immortal, Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October...
NINETEEN MILLION FEMALE BABY boomers are marching up to that slippery patch of the life cycle once known as "the dangerous age." This is the generation of American women that reinvented feminism, wrote Our Bodies, Ourselves, and learned to examine their cervices with mirrors. But can they prevail over menopause -- the hormonal bog that ate up Ur-feminist Simone de Beauvoir and that reportedly reduces sleek Hollywood women to palpitations and tears...
...recognized as highly effective for the agonizing pain caused by damaged nerves in patients with shingles and diabetes. Methadone, the synthetic heroin substitute, has found new use as a cheap, long-lasting easer of chronic pain. And fentanyl, a highly soluble opiate, is available in a stick-on patch that offers up to three days of relief from the chronic, steady pain endured by many cancer patients...
...populist and "organic." In fact, he did design an inordinate number of houses for an architect of his stature, and his best ones are married intricately and sublimely to their natural surroundings -- Fallingwater, one of his masterpieces, seems not so much erected as extruded out of a stony patch of Pennsylvania forest...
...Matisse had been working to solve the split he had always experienced between drawing and painting. By cutting shapes out of precolored paper -- cutting, as he saw it, directly into the color -- and then pasting them on the surface, he closed the gap between outline drawing and color patch. As in Memory of Oceania, 1952-53, he gave the art of collage a brilliance, size and optical vivacity it had never had before. Thus in the '60s he became the father figure of the new art of disembodied color being created by Americans like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis...