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...people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault pit. Or the women heading for the video monitor, who have just abandoned places in the rest-room line they have been holding for 30 minutes. Or the enterprising youngsters pelting spectators with hot-dog parts, who have suddenly adopted an air of near religious quiescence. Indeed, the entire stadium seems...
...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters, and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about eight-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen skinheads and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain, do not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...
...appropriate to a Victorian novel, not merely to a tale set in Victorian times. So is the central puzzle, which involves not only the story of the naive young cleric but also the distinctly unusual relationship between snobbish Charlotte, the bishop's chilly daughter, and Rose, a lusty "pit girl," or woman miner. It should not be overlooked that Rose is the novel's title figure. Smith's ending is not quite a hanky dampener, but it does bend a hard tale of murder and mine disaster a long way toward the never-never of historical romance...
Reno balanced academia and athletics until 1992, when she found herself at the University of Colorado, carrying her volleyball to the biology classes she taught and training in the school's long- jump pit because it was the only local sand. "I knew something had to give," she says. Her studies have lost out for now, but as a reminder, she sports tattoos of a dolphin and a wolf, along with her trademark Grateful Dead tie-dyed headbands. And when beach life gets too hot, she goes camping on her 40-acre retreat in Colorado...
Perhaps more significantly, Fox has taken over the rather moribund marketing of baseball with a series of fresh, wiseacre promos titled "Same Game, New Attitude." They include the Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have...