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Sadly, I expect over the course of the next several days, as the 2000 Games wind down, that there will probably be more drug violations. Even sadder, there will be medal winners who will never be caught, perhaps denying a "clean" athlete of a medal. It is unfortunate that every young swimmer, runner or rower should be suspected of drug use when he wins a medal, but it is a fair price to pay for perhaps one day having "the cleanest Games ever...
...passionate about something, then chanting might come naturally, and it might even sound good. But, when there's no emotional fire and when most of the people in a crowd are just trying to enjoy their cotton candy, organized chanting becomes a downright painful spectacle. There are few sights sadder than watching someone beg a crowd to chant...
...lecture hall and the virtual invitation to the professor's home to discuss the student's work in virtual privacy. But how will one re-create the moment when the professor's wife, who never understood him, suddenly does, and the affair is over, and the student--sadder but wiser--realizes that she is no longer a girl but a woman and that the world is a big old crazy wonderful place...
That isn't the only deprivation that Sterling suffers in the course of the novel. What begins in comedy ends in pathos, with the hero wiser and sadder at the end. The Barbarians Are Coming may seem like two novels, not particularly well matched, but both of them are readable and fascinating...
...around TV for decades, doing fine but hardly epochal work on The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure. His writers include TV pros who have slaved on noodles-and-catsup fare like Providence. If it's sad to think The Sopranos is an anomaly, it's sadder to think there could be a dozen writers ready to create the next one, if only the market would let them...