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...BOSTON STRANGLER...
...Jack Valenti, then as now the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, went before Congress to decry the good old VCR. "The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology," Valenti said, "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone." (In the end, the VCR worked out pretty well for everyone concerned, with the possible exception of exhibitors...
...piece of your soul. What made The Plant such a hilarious Internet natural (at least to my admittedly twisted mind) was that publishers and media people seem to see exactly this sort of monster whenever they contemplate the Net in general and e-lit in particular: a troublesome strangler fig that just might have a bit o' the old profit in it. If, that is, it's handled with gloves...
Taking on Knight in Indiana was like walking the streets of Baghdad with a sign saying SADDAM MUST GO. It didn't matter that there was a tape of Knight in a meltdown, making like the Boston Strangler on a former player. The 1997 incident, replayed endlessly when the tape surfaced last spring, brought outrage in Indiana. Not outrage aimed at Knight, whose three championships had always served as penance for his sins, but at Sperber, who had the gall to say it was time for Knight to go. Not to quibble, but it might have been time...
...gorillas' patch of untamed forest is, like the stadium, located squarely in the Bronx. Recently built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering...