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...Chicago, Jordan's return has been positively biblical. He has been mentioned in the same breath as Moses (leading the Bulls out of the wilderness), Jesus (second coming) and the prodigal son. In the days before he announced, "I'm back," mothers and fathers would bring their infants to the Berto Center in suburban Deerfield, Illinois, where the Bulls practice, just to see Jordan's red Corvette. And it wasn't just Chicago that was devoted to Michael. When the news of the return of Qiao Dan (pronounced tshoo dun) was announced over loudspeakers at an army basketball game...
...Nelson, a New York-based American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
...from one of her father's war buddies. Sitting on an airplane before take-off, McSweeney recites a line modified from the Song of Solomon, "Arise, my love, and fly again." As a child, her whole family would link hands and say this; now she mutters it under her breath when she flies alone. "I think it's embarrassing every now and again," she admits, but adds that she would not feel comfortable flying without reciting...
...BREATH FROM ER? THAT shaky camera in NYPD Blue making you nervous? On Friends, nbc's hot new sitcom, life is considerably more relaxed. In one recent show the characters are lounging around their neighborhood coffee bar, pondering one of those sophomoric questions that even most sophomores have outgrown: What would you do if you were omnipotent? (Says Phoebe, the spacey blond: End hunger, save the rain forests and get bigger boobs.) Later on, the show's three women spend most of an evening trying to catch a glimpse of George Stephanopoulos, who is supposedly eating pizza in an apartment...
...sincere admiration of "breath-taking bigotry" is a classic stereotype of Southerners that is blown so out of proportion that the revelation that he is really Middle Eastern, not a Phillips but a "Babaganush," is only part of a dizzying spiral of distortion. In "A Murder of Crows" reality is not only indistinguishable from fantasy but transcended...