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Maddux was at the All-Star Game despite the fact that he wouldn't be able to pitch because of a groin pull, and so were Ken Griffey Jr., Matt Williams and Ozzie Smith, All-Stars whose disabling injuries have further diminished the game this year. "For the fans to punch my name out, I had to be here," said Griffey. Not every player is as sentimental about the game. Darren Daulton and Lenny Dykstra of the Phillies blew off the Monday workout without telling anyone...
Whatever else might be said about him, Thomas does seem to have a flair for marketing. The trick, he says, is in how you write the pitch lines that describe your pictures. "You want to make the descriptions like a menu," he explains. "If you're selling a dry, tough steak, you want to make it sound as juicy as you can." Among his favorite come-ons (and one of the few suitable for publication): "Peek into the bathroom and see this cutie sitting on the toilet!" A subscriber who chose to download that photo would get a digitized picture...
...sure, Dole's remarks were an unmistakable pitch to the culturally conservative wing of the Republican Party, which will have a lot to say about who becomes the next G.O.P. presidential candidate. Dan Quayle, their favorite son, never entered the race. Pat Buchanan, their guilty pleasure, is probably too extreme to be elected. Even before it turned out that he once invested in an R-rated film, Phil Gramm of Texas had left them cold. Until recently, so had Dole, who never showed much interest in the politics of virtue before the Christian right emerged as a power bloc...
...likely to become more apparent. For a party committed to free-market principles -- and which also wants to defund public television and end government oversight of the airwaves -- a problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action pictures, are also among the most successful American film exports because their bang-bang simplicities translate easily across cultural boundaries. Says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey: "The free market that the economic...
...must redouble the efforts of our alumni,our faculty and our staff in order to make as gooda pitch as possible that [Harvard] is critical tothe success of America in the 21st century," Rowesaid.U.S. Rep JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II (D-Mass...