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Fernandez and Hernandez are pitchers, far better pitchers than Fidel Castro ever was, so good that they were national heroes in Cuba. As such, they were given certain entitlements. In the case of Fernandez, the best pitcher for Cuba during the past Olympics, the privileged life included a Moskvich car, immunity from food shortages, $5 a month in wages and closely guarded travel with the national team. Nobody was watching, though, when he slipped out of his motel in Millington, Tennessee, at 7 a.m. last July and got into a van that drove him to Miami...
...American free television with national scope has been seized by the likes of General Electric, Westinghouse, Disney and Rupert Murdoch. The giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...
Symptom Number One: The Grille. This past weekend I had occasion to venture down JFK St. for a pitcher of Red Dog. The crowd before midnight was a smattering of Harvard jocks, the Harvard women who love them and innumerable girls from Boston College who would like to. The Grille serves as a convenient hangout for them because of its easy accessibility to men and, it seems, open-door policy for women. Besides, it has cheap beer, the preferred drink of the "sporting...
Just three days before Christmas, Rob Butcher was fired as the New York Yankees' media-relations director because he was with family in Ohio instead of in New York City to help announce that the club had signed pitcher David Cone. A week later, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner offered Butcher his job back, but Butcher declined. This was the 11th time Steinbrenner had fired Butcher. Apparently a man can take only so much. The Yankee boss has now gone through a dozen p.r. men. All 12, oddly enough, quit...
...shadowed flank, which looks dull in reproduction but fairly blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous mass of a bass viol lying on the floor...