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...measure of a singer/songwriter's versatility is his treatment of non-original material. On Coconut Telegraph Buffett recorded a contemporary version of the 1930s hit "Stars Fell on Alabama." On this album, there are two covers, both of which recall bygone days of steamships sailing away for distant shores "Steamer," copyrighted by John Scott Sherrill last year, is a hauntingly sad reminiscence of lost love in a setting of crowds seeing a ship off at the dock. The imagery evokes the streamers, balloons, straw boaters and brave smiles known to us children of the 1960s only through black-and-white...
...always that steamer...
...first name. The animals, I had been convinced from the age of nine, were probably fake anyway. Still, I always wanted to go on safari even if it was only a defensive maneuver. I figured if things got worse than they had ever been, I would grab a steamer to Kenya and go out fighting. I would either emerge from the interior grizzled and cured, or I just wouldn't come out at all. Others I knew would go ski jumping. Or sky diving. Some would try to bring Marxism to Somerville. But I've always put more faith...
...There's a tremendous emptiness without baseball. Its absence creates a big void, and nothing, I mean nothing, can replace it." Americans are trying, of course. Former Texas Congressman Bob Casey, an Astros fan, is using his baseball time to burrow into a novel the size of a steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found a peculiar substitute for baseball: opera, an art form that the sport somewhat resembles-at least if Billy Martin or Earl Weaver is involved...
...archive was founded in 1936 with two steamer trunks of old prints brought out of Nazi Germany by a scholarly, enterprising Jewish immigrant named Otto Bettmann. Since then, Bettmann, who has a Ph.D. in history from the university of his native Leipzig, has built it into one of the nation's leading suppliers of historical illustrations to book publishers, magazines, television and films. Some of the archive's vast repository has even showed up on T shirts and cereal boxes. Last week the founder-now a dapper, energetic 77-and Hans P. Kraus, a Manhattan rare-book dealer...