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...Americans posted a 4-1 record in the Olympic tournament, losing only to Canada after they had already made it into the medal round. Throughout the Seoul competition, the U.S. had been spurred on by the pitching of Abbott and Ben McDonald and the hot bats of outfielder Ted Wood and first baseman Tino ; Martinez. A Seattle Mariners draft choice, Martinez sealed the final victory with two home runs and four RBIs. Introduced to the Games as a demonstration sport in 1904 and reintroduced in 1984, baseball will at long last become a full-fledged Olympic event in Barcelona...
...Princeton kiosk will serve as a guard tower at the new traffic entrance into the campus. The kiosk, which will accommodate a single security guard, is being built primarily in wood in "the style of an 18th-century cupola," according to Jon Hlafter, director of physical planning at Princeton. With a price tag of $50,000, the booth will cost about $1000 per square foot, Hlafter estimates...
Doug Flutie had risen from the grave, which in this case took the form of a slab of wood beside the football field. He had conquered...
...Land, it is now clear, is not simply an impersonal, jazz-age jeremiad. It is also a nerve- racking portrait of Eliot's emotional disintegration during his 20s: his emigration, against his family's wishes, from the U.S. to England and, once there, his disastrous marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a vivacious but increasingly unstable partner whom Virginia Woolf once described as a "bag of ferrets" around Eliot's neck. To read The Waste Land's overwhelming catalog of cultural decay is also to eavesdrop on a typical evening with Mr. and Mrs. Eliot. The wife is overheard: "My nerves...
...subject of twin gynecologists, driven to dementia and a symbiotic murder-suicide by urges that both share but neither understands, seems a scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played...