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Sport at its best is a microcosm of our species' nobility. But if we revel in watching the grace, skill and determination of men and women, we also can't help noticing when this prism of our society also refracts us in all our prurience...
...crimps the campaign of a potential political rival. The party in question was to celebrate the launch of Talk, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's latest magazine. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, a hefty Democratic supporter whose Miramax Films part-owns the publication, had applied to hold their August revel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by New York City. But Giuliani balked when rumors, still unsubstantiated, swirled that the magazine's first cover girl would be HILLARY CLINTON, who is likely to face the mayor in next year's Senate race. This act led to more press...
...Kubrick was used to that danger, even appeared to revel in it. Most of his pictures, whatever their genre roots, disappointed genre expectations, not to mention critical anticipation and occasionally the studio's box-office ambitions. As Eyes Wide Shut seeks to avoid those perils, it has something besides its considerable intrinsic merits going...
...then there was the whooping cough. And the disappointment of the past year when Miller and rest of the team that she co-captained, could not manage to rise and re-capture their former glory. Still, the Miller party is content to revel in memories of the process, no matter how trying, in "winning three championships and then not winning the fourth and what that taught...
...reliable pickup truck parked on your gravel driveway, the one that starts every time you turn the ignition key, without fail, no matter how cold a morning it is. His new album is straight Strait, traditional my-heart's-been-broke country, without frills or filler. The lyrics revel in comfortably familiar country contradiction: "I ain't missin' you/ That's a lie, and that's the truth," he sings on one track. This is a short CD--in typically spare Strait fashion, there are just 10 songs--but that's all you need...