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...customer paid a photographer $20 to take a souvenir photo of him and his wife with their BMW in front of the Tasty...
...cramped night of grease, nostalgia and souvenir photography at the Tasty at 2 JFK Street. Stools were hard to come by and standing room was sparse at the tiny restaurant. Onlookers spilled out into the sidewalk...
That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home...
...things considered, Tan Dun doesn't have much to complain about these days. The only thing that seems to exasperate him is when pigeonhole-happy journalists, mistaking him for yet another purveyor of souvenir-shop local color, claim that his music "brings East and West together." Nothing doing, Tan replies. "No East anymore, no West anymore. My purpose is to be flexible and freely flying around among all kinds of experience. Not to be driven by the wave of culture--fashion, trends, isms, schools--but to create my own unity...
Except this was July, the teams were called the Sting and the Liberty, and the players that the fans were beseeching for autographs were not Ewing and Rice but Lobo and Bullett. One of the hottest items at the souvenir stands was a T shirt that read INVENTED BY MAN, PERFECTED BY WOMAN. "This is phenomenal," said a woman who drove 65 miles from South Carolina to bring her daughter to the game. "My daughter thinks I'm the best mama in the world." Following the laser lights and loud music required of every N.B.A. pregame show, the announcer thundered...