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...fans have to adjust to the new ways as well. When the team gave away free beer one night, Penguin supporters pitched empties onto the ice in disgust at some unsportsmanlike play on the part of the opposition. Warshaw has devised a solution: next time the beer will come in "collectors' cans" emblazoned with the Penguin logo. "They won't throw those away," he predicts...
...Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee; Penguin India; 303 pages...
BATMAN IS DEPRESSED. FIRST HE READS a headline in the local paper: PENGUIN CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Then, while rounding up some crooks, he nearly causes the death of Commissioner Gordon. BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, which is joining Fox's Sunday-night schedule after scoring big ratings in daytime, has the same dark hues as the hit movies on which it is based, but probably more entertainment bang for the buck. The animation nicely reproduces the films' shadowy, expressionist look; the action scenes really make sense; and the scripts aspire to more. This brooding superhero even paraphrases Santayana: "A fanatic is someone...
...Viking Penguin...
...takes on the biggest job of his 30 years as a career diplomat, Eagleburger, 62, somehow makes all this work to his advantage. "There is charisma in that funny penguin of a figure," says a veteran congressional aide. His devil-may-care attitude about how he treats his body extends to how he handles his public image, and at least in that regard the result has been astonishingly healthy...