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However, neither baseball's heroic individualism nor its breath-taking system of converging lines is a quality that especially endears the game to the intellectual. What matters, for trivialists or dispassionate baseball believers, is the durable history of the game. Professional baseball has been around longer than any other organized pro sport in the United States and with each passing season increases that margin in time played. While no other sport boasts even 1000 playing hours a season, baseball teams play close to 6000 a year and make the game the unrivalled quarry for trivia hunters...
...real-life achiever-hero's rise to the White House. She traveled from her midtown Manhattan apartment to Washington, D.C., this month to watch Greenspan's swearing-in, then was introduced to President Ford. "I'm very proud of Alan," she says. "His is a heroic undertaking...
...suspense as he pursues his harried hero to a brilliant climactic confrontation with the enemy in the Swiss Alps. And he gains much in terms of audience identification with, and genuine concern for, a man who, like the rest of us, would cheerfully have allowed the heroic cup to pass him by, but grips it with enviable firmness when there is no other choice...
...sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith's work was always conceived in terms of landscape or, more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves...
Thirteen years ago, Rudolf Nureyev, the first Kirov refugee, astonished Western audiences with his heroic bursts of explosive movement, animal magnetism and sheer showmanship, not to say showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself...