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...Mason, who is preparing another one-man Broadway show this season, entitled (what else?) Politically Incorrect, got into a similar scrape four years ago, but this time has responded more defiantly. ''I positively don't apologize,'' he said. ''I'm telling a joke here.'' Telling jokes has always been somewhat at odds with the p.c. ethos. To be politically correct, one must be constantly sensitive to the feelings of others. To be a comedian, one frequently has to ignore them. People like Stern, says Dr. Harvey Greenberg, professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, are ''part...
...souls.'' The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), 1923-24, is full of such sparks, starting with the figure of the hunter himself, with his floppy cap -- the traditional barretina, which is to Catalunya roughly what Stetsons are to Texas -- and his heart, burning with neat little flames of patriotic ardor, somewhat resembling an anarchist's grenade about to go off. The letters that spell out SARD in Miro's loopy calligraphy refer, of course, to the traditional dance known as a sardana. Much barer works followed: the astonishing series of a dozen or so large landscapes that Miro produced in Montroig...
...Carnegie Hall, moving jazz up the social as well as the musical scale. Just before he went on, Goodman was asked how long an intermission he wanted. ''I don't know,'' he replied. ''How much does Toscanini get?'' Tastes changed after World War II. The big bands became dinosaurs. Somewhat petulantly, Goodman decried bop and other forms of modern jazz, even though he had blazed the way with his trio, quartet and sextet for such groups as the Modern Jazz Quartet. Later he would denigrate rock, even though, in his ability to inspire mass mania, he had been a prototypical...
...eventing, each rider competes on the same horse through the four-day competition. Five selectors decide the Olympic team over an 18-month vetting period. It's a somewhat subjective process: eventing can't have win-and-in pre-Olympic trials because if the horses exerts too much energy before the Games, they might be spent for Beijing. The equine body can't bounce back like Michael Phelps...
...camaraderie. "When it was actually necessary to line up for a movie ticket, people made the best of it," says MovieTickets Executive Vice-President Joel Cohen. "They made it a fun experience by dressing up and turning it into an event. But if it's still happening, it's somewhat unnecessary...