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...home games are where the over nightesrs shine, scenes of in evolving ritual that dates back into the years of Coach John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood. Through chants of "Who's he?" "Big deal" "So what" "Who cares?" and "Go home" after the introduction of the visitors' line-up, shouts of "Play ball" at the end of the national anthem, and the flawless execution of a repertoire of game-time cheers and jeers, the faithful add to their enjoyment of the best games while over the likes of San Joe State...
Shiloh and Other Stones, an important first volume of fiction by Bobbie Ann Mason, 42, introduces a Kentucky of disabled truckers and Rexall waitresses. Her view produces achingly accurate pictures of the commonplace. These tales neither judge nor mystify, but shine like a Formica countertop. "I'm writing about ordinary people rather than alienated superior sensibilities," she explains. "I'm writing about people who are trying desperately to get into the society rather than...
Poltergeist. The hell-mouth side of Spielberg's suburban diptych: vengeful spirits drive a middle-class family beyond bananas. The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature. Under Tobe Hooper's direction Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson shine as the dogged mom and the heroic-in-spite-of-himself...
...even enough tone for such analysis Jesus's followers come across as suitably starry-eyed, dutifully and competently executing just a trifle too muchchoreography; the Apostles, confusingly enough, are written as insensitive, wine-soaked and opportunistic sods who don't know what's happening under their noses, making Judas shine by comparison. The Romans are comically and stereotypically nasty, except when they cross the line into perversely effective high camp. Caiaphas and the High Priests fool everyone late in Act I, pulling an unexpectedly macabre moment out of the end of "This Jesus Must...
Brezhnev loved gifts and gadgets of all kinds. When he took a particular shine to a gold Rolex, word was given to its Swiss makers, and before long the watch found its way to his thick wrist. Gerald Ford remembers how, on his way to Vladivostok for a meeting on strategic arms limitations in 1974, he was given a wolfskin coat during a stop in Alaska. When Ford stepped off Air Force One in the frozen remoteness of Vladivostok, a waiting Brezhnev immediately spied the coat. He pulled it off the President, tried it on and walked away with...