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...have put him at the forefront of many young boys' dreams. Everywhere you look, there is Michael -- referred to (like Elvis or Madonna) by his first name only, and asked by foreign journalists whether he is an extraterrestrial or a god. The pressures of such a position are his shadow: as the Bulls defeated the New York Knicks last week, people were talking about Jordan's late-night visit to an Atlantic City casino and his gambling habits as much as about his effortless scoring of 54 points in a single game. A new book written by a self-described...
Standing in the large--very large--shadow of Harvard boxer Doug Clarke, it's hard to believe what he says...
...When I first read the book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span -- it's a wonderful device for looking at the melancholy of mortality. I was a child growing up under the shadow of a possible nuclear holocaust; now I see young people growing up under the shadow of aids. We have a bittersweet feeling of living in the moment, knowing that shortly that moment will be gone forever. Woolf says it is important to value the intensity of your life...
...ought to be, far from closed. Producer-narrator William Klaber proposes that Sirhan was a brainwashed setup for the real killer. (One oft-cited suspect, who denies involvement: a part-time security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar.) And who had programmed Sirhan? In the tapes' most notable contribution to shadow history, Klaber points to Dr. William Bryan Jr., a California sex therapist (now dead) who had purportedly conducted hypnosis experiments for -- yes, you guessed...
...four of the 21 surviving children have been placed with parents and relatives. Yet Koresh still looms as an ambivalent shadow, a daunting memory. In their drawings the compound is both riddled with bullet holes and depicted as the kingdom of heaven. In other drawings, they surrounded the words I LOVE DAVID with hearts. "They learned to substitute the word love for fear," Perry told the New York Times. Living a normal life will not be easy. "We were all waiting for the end to happen," says Kiri Jewell. It has -- and now life must...