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...rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially for three days, declared President Itamar Franco. On the flight home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came...
...criteria for judging the ads remains a mystery. Although they were divided up into those receiving the bronze, silver and gold lion awards and the grand prix, the distinction seemed to be arbitrary. The grand prix, an ad for some brand of glue, showed a nun refixing a penis onto a baby Jesus...
...number of international prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award for Metroland (published in 1980) as well as the French Prix Medicis. His name is invoked in hushed reverential tones whenever there is speculation about candidates for the Booker Prize (Britain's prestigious literary award). He acknowledges that he is not writing for the average library borrower (or one suspects the little old lady from Dubuque), yet his work is not inaccessible...
...NINE SLEEK THOROUGHBREDS exploded out of the starting gate in the $38,000 Prix Omnium II at the Saint-Cloud racecourse outside Paris earlier this month, all binoculars were trained on a single horse. In the diffident manner that marks his style, the diminutive three-year-old, a crooked white blaze crossing his handsome forehead, hung well back. He settled into sixth place in the 1,600-m contest, moving along at a leisurely gallop that offered no hint of the fireworks to come...
...making movies. Lane went on to win a student Academy Award for best short in 1976 for A Place in Time, a 36-minute experimental film about a street artist; 13 years later, he revived that film's Chaplinesque hero in Sidewalk Stories, a silent feature that won the Prix du Publique Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Burnett's first feature, Killer of Sheep, about a man who works in a slaughterhouse, was one of the first 50 films archived in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry...