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...years, visiting the neighborhood Blockbuster to rent a movie was a bit like watching Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone's vault. Great expectations gave way to dejection as you learned that any valuables inside were long gone...
When a team isn't dependent on stars, it develops an immunity against injury. Centerfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter and relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, the team's three best and most reliable players, have all spent time on the disabled list this season. But like members of some impassioned guerrilla army, as each man has fallen, another has risen in his place. It is to this fungibility of parts that one must attribute their astonishing record of 68-23 through their first 91 games, for a winning percentage of .747. That pace, if sustained, would put them in reach...
...guest on such shows as Crossfire and Rivera Live, Klayman calmly and routinely proposes the most outlandish conspiracies. Isn't it possible, he has said, that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash in Croatia two years ago, may actually have been shot to death? The crucial point for Klayman is that Brown died the very week he was supposed to be deposed for a Judicial Watch suit alleging that seats on Commerce Department trade missions were sold to big campaign contributors. "They may have sent him to Bosnia to keep him from being deposed," Klayman suggested...
...most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some of the Mexican work of Diego Rivera...
...most telling physical landmark of the restaurant, however, is the immense, brightly colored mural in the style of Diego Rivera which wraps around behind the bar and open kitchen. In it, merry people amuse themselves beneath strands of Spanish moss, dangling over the fancy wrought-iron balconies and balustrades of Southern gothic buildings. All drink and laugh profusely, and all are glaringly white. The image is a perfect metaphor for the cuisine. Magnolias strives to emulate New Orleans, but a piece of its heart will always be in New Canaan...