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...scoreboard and anticipate the day (coming soon) when Internet data ports at their seats will keep them wired even when the action below does not. Chances are no one will be giving a second thought to the toxic mess that was here just four years ago--an industrial wasteland of asbestos and lead, arsenic and benzene and the carcinogenic remains of a 19th century crematory...
...sale, while the Yankees have won all but two World Series. When the Canadian Press tabulated the top 50 sports teams of the century, the ’94 Expos ranked just 41st, placing behind several curling teams. If the Expos do ultimately join baseball’s historical wasteland of anonymity, then the strike-shortened 1994 season may be the appropriate symbol of the team’s history: an endeavor that was never allowed to grow to its full potential, done in by avarice and myopic horizons...
...just as in Goteborg and Prague, extremists are grabbing the spotlight. Right before Luers' trial, the Chevrolet dealership he set on fire was torched again. "We can no longer allow the rich to parade around in their armored existence, leaving a wasteland behind in their tire tracks," read a communique from the new (but still anonymous) arsonists. Zerzan, a soft-spoken graybeard who advocates a return to a hunter-gatherer society, applauds the fire bombers. "I'd like to see it happen every day," he says. "We're interested in destroying the system, not in macho saber rattling." Whatever...
...behind this transformation on the tube? A new, iconoclastic generation of creative talents? An insurgent band of reformers from outside the wasteland's preserve? Hardly. If any individuals can be said to be the catalysts they are a pair of tanned and creased Hollywood veterans named Alan ("Bud") Yorkin and Norman Lear...
...Besides two wonderfully candid interviews with Southern - in which he notes, among other things, that the film director is, for the most part, "an interfering parasite," and "much of your time [as a screenwriter] will be spent in a creative wasteland" -- the single most revealing piece in "Dig" is "King Weirdo," his ode to his first literary hero, Edgar Allen Poe. Southern's singular fascination for Poe's duplicitous frame device in "A. Gordon Pym" -- which insists that the story you're reading is an account of actual events submitted to Poe -- is reflected in several of his own short...