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High school football is a quasi-religion all over the South, but in Odessa, Texas, it is more -- a mania, a frenzied obsession, a compensation, perhaps, for living in the wind-beaten, mesquite-covered, dust-ridden, sun-baked locale that novelist Larry McMurtry calls (in Texasville) "the worst town on earth." Odessans often fill every one of the 20,000 seats in the gleaming $6 million stadium, complete with two-story press box, built in 1982 for Permian High School's five-time state champions, the Panthers. Odessa's preoccupation with the Panthers is richly chronicled in Friday Night Lights...
...days when very few came out of the closet, and when heavily masculine types applied brutally obscene epithets to presumed homosexuals, gentler but still condescending terms like the quasi-official title chosen by male homosexuals themselves I cannot imagine. In this country and England one of its meanings was "an agressively forward or impertinent manner...
...before yesterday, such superpower cooperation against a nation that had long been an ally of the Kremlin's would have been inconceivable. But their new quasi alliance is the most striking, though very far from the only example of a proposition that has gathered force over the past six weeks: Saddam's power grab and the U.S.-led opposition to it have so shaken up global political and power calculations that the world will never be the same...
...move but deemed it "consistent with the constitution of Pakistan." The Bush Administration did not appear ready to go along with a handful of U.S. Senators who advocated a cutoff in Washington's almost $600 million-a-year aid to Pakistan in response to what they called a "quasi- military coup." But U.S. diplomats said the real test would be Ishaq's ability to deliver on his promise of elections, a commitment that previous Pakistani Presidents have broken far more often than...
...painter to appear on the scene, in Europe or elsewhere, during the last 25 years." His influence was wide. Those cakes of thick pigment, those creamy, generous brushstrokes inlaid like rough marquetry over their contrasting grounds, struck many artists in the 1950s as a viable alternative to the linear, quasi-geometric abstraction that had grown out of the cubist grid. But though De Stael had a healthy effect on two or three major artists, especially the English painter Frank Auerbach, most of his imitators were insipid, and their weakness reflected on De Stael's own reputation...