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...might tell you that my philosophy represents a very small and marginal section of the baseball community. But I like hot dogs, baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet like everyone else. It's just that my icons come with a few particulars. Thus, the last three and most important commandments...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: The Purity of Baseball | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

...Thus half a dozen well-financed rivals of the traditional men's magazines have arrived or are poised to enter the fray, even at a time when all publications are hard pressed to hold on to advertisers. Warns Charles Elbaum, president of Publishing Economics, a media consulting firm: "The pie has been sliced too many times for them all to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Muchness of Maleness | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...murderer has been kept secret nearly as long as that of Jimmy Hoffa. More people, it seems, want to know about David Lynch's eating habits. How many damn fine cups of coffee (lots of milk, gobs of sugar) does he drink each day? Does he share the cherry-pie fixation of his TV hero, Special Agent Cooper? On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno quizzed Lynch about his Guinness Book-worthy consumption of chocolate milk shakes at the Bob's Big Boy chain in Los Angeles. The astounding stats: one every day at 2:30 p.m. for seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Bloom admits that a feminine J is supposition. Among his arguments: Genesis contains the only known account from the ancient Middle East of the creation of woman -- six times as long as the story of Adam's advent from a "mud pie." Furthermore, the women of the Pentateuch (Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Zipporah) are strong; none of the men (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) are particularly good looking. Circumstantial evidence, but in an era of enhanced interest in feminist creativity, it is not very hypothetical to assume that Bloom's work will draw a wide and interested audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ms. Moses | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...even Berlin or Tokyo--but it is nonetheless deserving of the committee's recognition. Athens represents hide-bound tradition and a sclerotic inability to break away from the past. Atlanta represents vitality, mobility and a constant eye on the future. Not to mention the best peach cobbler and pecan pie on Earth...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Athens, Rome, Berlin, Atlanta? | 9/25/1990 | See Source »

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