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...matter of public record that in this year of the wave, a pestilence of antsy people who stand for everything the stranger next to them stands for --meaning nothing in particular--the Wrigley customers had the rare grace to stay down in front. Regarding the wave, they agree with the ample broadcaster John Madden: "It is just another form of artificial turf." Concerning artificial turf, they concur with the retired philosopher Richie Allen: "If horses won't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Against these and most other modern innovations, nearly all of them television related...
...train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom India's temples and palaces, symbols of its several cultures and religions, of a history?a maddeningly complex reality?impenetrable to the passing stranger...
...jacket that I ever had. It even had a vest." To listen to an old senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece to correct mistakes or rearrange paragraphs...
...cool shower after the heat of the marathon." That is how Comedian-Actress Whoopi Goldberg, 34, describes her Cinderella-like transformation from obscure performance artist to star of her own one-woman Broadway show. Like the drug addicts, Valley Girls, cripples and others she portrays, Goldberg is no stranger to life's vicissitudes. "I am my show," she explains. "The characters I play on the stage have been on a long trek of self-discovery." A native New Yorker, she performed in small theaters on both coasts before being Great-White-Wayed by Mike Nichols, who oversaw...
Until a few years ago, barely a school would touch the loaded subject of sex abuse, let alone make it part of the curriculum. It seemed none of the schools' business. Furthermore, molested youngsters rarely told, either cowed by a stranger's threat or, if the offender was some one close, shamed by the act or fearful of a family blowup. Besides, most grownups tended to brush off chil dren's tales of abuse as fantastic...