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Montreal's demise is marked not by the year of the Canadiens' last champion ship in 1979 but by the retirement of legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored...
...themes of privation and sardonic defiance are conveyed at first glance. The set, designed by Playwright Byrne, is the slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...most important show by an American sculptor in years. Smith died in 1965, when his pickup truck spun off a country road near his studio in Bolton Landing, an isolated little town in the Adirondacks. He was 58 and in the prime of his sculptural career. Only Jackson Pollock's fatal car crash nine years earlier subtracted so much, so soon, from American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since. If one measures a man's achievement by emotional range, formal vitality, material energy and historical ambition-the often derided "phallic" virtues of ambitious...
...priority than leisure. Only 15% admitted going to a bar or nightclub once or twice a week. Seven out of ten said hardly any of their free time is wasted, and six of ten said excess time is best spent when it focuses on goals. Said Social Scientist John Pollock, who supervised the study: "Our flinty Puritan heritage has its hooks in the present...
...excitement and challenges, the overwhelming majority of Americans are homebodies who need the company of other people. Eight out of ten say family activities are the most important use of spare time, and 83% of parents say they get great satisfaction from their children. "More than anything," says Pollock, "Americans are looking for companionship...