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...extraliterary as those set forth by feminists, multiculturalists and all the others who discuss books in ways Bloom ridicules and despises. And Bloom's view produces chapter titles such as "Freud: A Shakespearean Reading" and "Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare," in which the actual works and words of the upstart authors are wrenched out of context and forced into hypothetical bouts of cross-generational arm wrestling...
...that the shows' producers will acknowledge that anything as undignified as a battle is taking place. The Extra folks are positioning themselves as a companion, not a competitor, to Entertainment Tonight. E.T.'s producers, meanwhile, barely admit to noticing their upstart rival. This despite the fact that E.T. has introduced a new set, jazzed up its visuals to match the more frenzied (and supposedly younger-oriented) style of Extra, and now plasters its logo on the air constantly, to make sure viewers don't forget which show they're watching...
Columbia is close behind, with a 4-0-1 record overall and a 1-0 record in the league. The Lions' non-league schedule has featured wins over such Manhattan (5-1), Adelphi (3-1) and St. Francis (2-0), and a tie against upstart Long Island (2-2). In its first league game of the year on Saturday, the team soundly trounced Harvard...
...Online -- this was the year it all fell into place. The computers were cheap. The modems were fast. The infohighway buzzwords were on everybody's lips. "It's like Mars and Jupiter coming into alignment," says Maurice Cox, president of CompuServe, the largest (2.25 million subscribers) of the field. Upstart America Online grew at such a rapid clip -- an extraordinary 200% in the past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online...
...powerhouse English squad, 1-0, in one of the sport's most notorious upsets. The victory over Colombia (following a tense tie with Switzerland) nearly ensures that the U.S. will advance to the second of five rounds in the 24-team bash. It also drew praise for the upstart Yanks from a skeptical world press; London's Daily Telegraph dubbed them "Team Miracle." Naturally, the spokesman for the U.S. eleven, Dean Linke, is even more enthusiastic: "We really are America's Dream Team of soccer...