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...fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight and tomorrow night and down an endless trail of nights on into history, was this: Mark McGwire hugging everyone he could lay his big meaty hands on. Players. Coaches. His son. The Maris family, nearly all at once. Mark McGwire seemed...
Whether tending to your own daily upkeep is a joy or a drag, one of the side-effects of being alone is all those little voices bouncing around in your head when you are all by your lonesome. What to do with all those deep thoughts...
...industry swamped with angry men and penis jokes, recent college grad Beckwith's material is a tough sell. In a seven-minute set, she'll maybe get through three long jokes, but the traveling is interesting. In one bit, she dismisses big-screen TVs, arguing that the joy of television is having tiny people entertain you. "I think there should be openings for food and water so that it's as if you could actually feed the tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some...
...center of the hip-hop world for six years. When Snoop was with his old label, the troubled Death Row Records, working with ace producer Dr. Dre, his lyrics were often profane, yes, but at least the music had bounce and life and a sense of almost nihilistic joy. Da Game is a long recitation of familiar gangsterisms--slapping "bitches," giving shoutouts to "niggas," dealing drugs, killing enemies and, of course, getting paid for rapping about...
...third was abandoned by her father. Their burdens differ, but they are all Women of Faith, adherents of an evangelical Christian movement that is rapidly becoming both complement and antidote to the all-male Promise Keepers. And despite the problems, the tenor of the weekend becomes resolutely cheerful. "Joy" is invoked almost as frequently as God. Members of Women of Faith don't trade promises or admonishments; they swap stories and compliments. Since 1996, when the for-profit enterprise was founded, predominantly white women of all Christian denominations have been drawn to revivals staged in churches and cozy sports arenas...