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...Yankees were an introduction to all of the greatest things in life - heroes, triumph, unconditional love. And, perhaps above all, they were a chance to feel invincible. Our seats were about 20 rows behind home plate, a perfect vantage point to see the giants of October. Reggie Jackson hitting the ball into the stratosphere. Goose Gossage fastballs coming straight at us in 100 mph 3-D. I sat one seat behind Christopher Reeves. Throughout the game, I kept marveling over how puny Superman looked in front of my real-life superheroes...
...Great DiMaggio. And what written line better sums up the passing of a generation than Paul Simon's "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you."? Simon was bemoaning the loss of heroes in America. He didn't foresee the coming of Reggie Jackson and Ron Guidry, of Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams...
...movie translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which began filming last month. Spread out over more than a thousand pages in three volumes, the book is notoriously difficult to film, the last attempt being Ralph Bakshi's horrid 1978 cartoon. How will director Peter Jackson satisfy the book's millions of fans? The fact is, he won't. But perhaps he can at least satisfy himself, and give the world an excellent version of one person's view of Middle-Earth; and that's really...
...Rembrandt.) Other exhibitions worth noting: "The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection," (a stunning collection of masks from Western and Central Africa), "Sublimation: Art and Sensuality I the 19th century" (most importantly two Gustave Moreau canvases), "America: Art After 1950" (including a Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock), and "Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing." Upcoming exhibitions include: Oct. 30-Jan. 23, 2000: "Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650," and Nov. 27-March 26: "The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard." In addition to the collections...
Asked about the "essence of leadership," Gore expressed a view of the presidency championed by Andrew Jackson in 1828. "A president is the only person in our constitutional system who has the responsibility to fight for the welfare...of all of our people," Gore said...