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Through the Portal...
...surfaced through the portal and realized that Fenway Park was just right for the occasion. The fans were wrapped tightly around the playing field, the left field wall was still inscrutable, and great things could be done here. The park, like the team, was anomalous, small and somewhat fierce...
...John the Unfinished." Hampered by a shortage of funds, materials and skilled craftsmen, construction of the world's second largest church* has proceeded at a medieval pace. After three-fourths of a century, the building is only two-thirds complete; the skeletal scaffolding on the incomplete portal towers has stayed in place for 25 years simply because it would cost too much ($70,000 nowadays) to take it down...
...Swedes were not disturbed one whit. They queued up to enter "the portal of life," clustered about the soft-drink bar inside one breast. Children toboggan down the inside of the right thigh, shrilling, "Oh, what a funny house!" Couples snuggle in the love seat in the left leg, blissfully unaware that the sculptors have hidden microphones that are broadcasting their sweet nothings to the laughing crowd in the breast bar. Youngsters scramble up the stairs through the tummy, pop out of the navel, where there is a conveniently placed table on a terrace...
...they were in the good old days. Bulgaria is plugging a two-week stay on the sunny Black Sea coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend in Budapest. In Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie has become a bustling portal for tourists who want a peek behind the Wall. But of the major writers, only the Hungarian-born Fodor seems to be aware that the Iron Curtain exists; Fielding dropped all his Eastern European sections...