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...Before Kevin Costner's smash Dances with Wolves opened, the town's grumble bunnies were calling it Kevin's Gate. Which is not to predict that Billy B. will be a hit; it lacks, by design, the grapefruit-in-your-face impact of most gangster classics. But this is superior filmmaking, as handsomely conceived and realized as Dick Tracy, but darker, more resonant. It has a grace and a gravity rare just now in American films. Oh, and Willis, as a high-living hoodlum, is one dandy dandy...
...only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior...
...canny, it will trade one pricey player for two or three prospects (as the Twins did last year, losing Frank Viola to the Mets and gaining three blossoming pitchers in return). Finally, if fortune is kind, the team will find a few middle-income free agents ready for superior years (Atlanta's Terry Pendleton, Minnesota's Jack Morris and Chili Davis). The 162-game plan: get the kids before they cost too much and the veterans because they know so much. Well, it worked...
Phaedrus is back in Lila, Pirsig's second book, this time alone on a boat, wending his way leisurely down a water path that originated in Lake Superior and may bring him to Florida or even Mexico. He had hoped that all this free, undisturbed time would allow him to sort through the thousands of note cards he has assembled for his next book, tentatively titled Metaphysics of Quality or Metaphysics of Value. And this book, as Phaedrus describes it, sounds interesting: an attempt to find some middle path between scientists and mystics, between those who swear by facts alone...
...must live within limits," Lookstein said. "We are free to choose, but we are not the only arbiters of our decisions. We must submit to a will that's superior to ours...