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...game, the weather couldn't have been better. It was pleasant and crisp, and students cavorted in the grass outside the stadium, without a hint of the impending winter. It only made sense that we won; it would have been silly to lose after the sky had been cleared so effectively. Then what about the soccer games? At the first round of the NCAA championships, Harvard won rather dramatically. It was relatively chilly out and a little damp, but a rainbow stretched over the field in the second half. Harvard doesn't send out cheerleaders to soccer games, just rainbows...
...Dragon Flyz $12; Galoob; ages 5 and up Everyone knows this toy. A string is pulled, and something spins into the air. Dragon Flyz, the boy's version of last year's popular Sky Dancers, is an appealingly hideous iteration. The launcher is a ferocious-looking dragon that, when its tail is yanked, shoots off macho warriors or ghoulish villains with bad overbites. Scary, twirly stuff...
Ritts' most recent book is entitled Africa, and its focus on the contrast between the dark-skinned subjects and the brightness of background and sky is pure Ritts, as are the extreme close-ups that examine the subjects so intently. However, only a few of these photographs are displayed in this exhibition, and they present an odd digression from the stargazing extravaganza that both precedes and follows them...
When the Nike Air Jordan--or the Sky Jordan as it was first called--was introduced, it was more identifiable with the Bulls than with Michael himself. The color concept was red and black, like the Bulls' colors and maybe a simple "23" adorned the shoe, I can't recall. Again, the shoes represented the team more than the player. But Michael was a spectacular player on a decidedly unspectacular team. This forced Nike to be more creative in its marketing...
...certain death only because an alert ground crew and one pilot noted the flaps weren't moving properly before takeoff. But as Major Donald Lowry Jr., 36, prepared to fly on May 30, 1995, no one noticed the snafu. So Lowry's plane, instead of being lifted into the sky that Memorial Day morning, was pushed into the runway and disintegrated at 250 m.p.h...