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ACCORDING to his widow, who prepared this volume, Italo Calvino considered many options for the title of this collection before he hit on the word "memos." For an American, the word has unpleasant associations--the torpid prose of bureaucrats and administrators, whose spell-check word processors restrict their vocabularies--but one can see how it would appeal to a European intellectual like Calvino. It has a soothing alliteration, and its etymology--an abbreviation of "memorandum," something "to be remembered"--implies history...
MOONSTRUCK John Patrick Shanley's witty, shapely script puts an octet of New Yorkers under a lunar-tuney spell one romantic night. Cher shines brightest...
...past, Morelli has been hindered bycatching both games of a doubleheader. ButNahigian said that freshman third-baseman AronAllen will spell Morelli in the second game of afew twinbills to give the senior a well-deservedrest...
When Michigan State shouted "scoreboard," the Harvard crowd yelled "Board scores." When MSU spelled out "S-T-A-T-E," the Crimson band shot back, "Now spell Michigan." And, after a pause, hinted, "It begins with...
...Nieuwendyk: Joe Nieuwendyk. He left Cornell this year to play for the Clagary Flames, where he has scored a lot of goals as a rookie. He is the only player around that uses all the other letters of the alphabet to spell his name...