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Last month Scott Shannon, a deejay at New York City's top-rated WHTZ-FM, who obtained a copy of Dear Mr. Jesus from WRBQ-FM in Tampa, played it in honor of Lisa Steinberg, the six-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death while in the care of a Manhattan couple. Within 24 hours, Dear Mr. Jesus became WHTZ's most requested song; it still prompts 3,000 calls a day. Since then, stations across the country have discovered the same phenomenon. Last week New York- based Island Records was one of several companies seeking the rights to Dear...
...remember Rob Steinberg attempting a punt against a horrific Princeton rush; they had sent everybody. The punt would have been blocked--except Steinberg kicked the ball where nobody could get it, netting a 33-yd. punt which looked like an Astro-Turf single...
Later in the same game, Steinberg made a soccer-style slide tackle on a muffed punt snap for a safety. I thought it was a great play, preventing the Tigers from scoring six points. But on the ensuing free kick, Princeton made that runback. The final score was a rugby-like...
That zany play this past weekend when a Penn player tried to kick the ball Steinberg-style into the end zone and recover it--and I was the only one in the stands who had the benefit of instant replay and knew what the heck was going...
...mock-religious cloud that formed around abstract expressionism when it was becoming America's first imperial style, coupled with the grip of the academies since, all but wrecked the middle ground between the sublime and the trivial. How many American artists, except for a few loners like Saul Steinberg and Ed Keinholz, are both really good and really, mordantly funny? By and large, America dislikes satire; it wants its humor cute and warm. Hence Grooms' success...