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...paradoxical. It’s surely less about the actual competition, and even less about who wins or loses. For once, the vast amount of games played aren’t about the dramatic rivalries sportswriters love to talk about. But so much of it, simultaneously, is about trash-talking, relentlessly mocking your friends, and playing, non-stop, until it’s time to go home...
Since 9/11, U.S. transit officials have made some changes. Amtrak and big-city subways have added police and dog units and removed some large, bomb-ready fixtures--like trash cans and vending machines. At Amtrak, names given by passengers are checked against various government watch lists (a spokesman declined to say which ones). Last week Amtrak upped security patrols and electronic surveillance of tracks, bridges and tunnels...
...only--intellectually provocative screenwriter. In Being John Malkovich, Kaufman transposed Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole into a chute that ends in the mind of a movie star. Human Nature had him musing on the internal battle of animal and civilized instincts. In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, he spun trash-game-show king Chuck Barris' tales of CIA sleuthing and assassination into a deconstruction of the spy-movie and biopic genres. He threw himself (and a fake twin brother) into Adaptation, a film about, among other things, the impossibility of one medium's being true to another...
College basketball players usually get e-mail from adoring teenage girls or trash-talking students from a rival school. So how does Nick Welch, star player at the Air Force Academy, feel when alums in Iraq send notes that say his team inspires their squadrons? "It's a great honor," says Welch. "But we have it easy. I have much more respect for what they're doing...
...until the end of Bitches that the stereotypes get nasty in their references to race and religion. The Guerilla Girls discuss Sallie Mae, white trailer trash, Lauren, the Jewish American Princess (“What does she make for dinner? Reservations”), Susan, the White Girl Who Goes After Black Men and Tiffany, the Foxy Flygirl with six-inch fingernails. They argue that by laying these stereotypes out on the table we will be better able to disarm them, perhaps removing their power to shock and hurt...