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High Sidey's commentary urging that the memorial statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt [AMERICAN SCENE, April 28] show him in a wheelchair made me want to scream. Are we building a memorial to a great President or to a distinguished polio victim? If I were famous enough to have a memorial statue, would the hearing impaired of America demand it show me with a hearing aid in each ear? We are fortunate that the protesters don't demand the memorial represent F.D.R. by an empty wheelchair. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
...scream about ice cream. Some 30% of ICE CREAM lovers wind up with a brief but intense headache within seconds of taking a mouthful. The reason: when cold hits the back of the palate, nerve fibers become irritated, sending pain signals straight to the head...
Those who scream loudest about the injustice of Title IX are usually football boosters, some of whom are middle-aged male athletic directors who hold the purse strings. But as Lopiano says, "The dinosaurs are leaving." What's driving them into extinction is not so much feminism or economics but rather parenthood. "Young parents, that first generation of moms and dads who grew up believing their daughters could be athletes, are a vast force for change," says Lopiano. Dads--especially, she adds, men who have coached their daughters' teams for years--are really going to be mad if athletic scholarships...
Iscream; you scream; we all scream for ice cream! Or, maybe only I scream, since it's a brisk April day. Time of year is no deterrent for me. I eat ice cream just about every day of the year. Ice cream study breaks always manage to snag me. Yes, I confess. I am a Harvard first-year, and I am addicted to ice cream and its affiliated products...
...most amazing journey of all was taken by COURTNEY LOVE. Last year she was still rock's open wound. Tread-marked and track-marked, widow of Kurt Cobain and primal scream of the rock band Hole, she was the id other rockers warmed their instruments against. This year she's Audrey Hepburn. O.K., not quite. But for her sizable performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which she played Flynt's formidable and doomed wife Althea, a druggy ex-stripper, Love won the New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Supporting Actress. Last month the same woman...