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...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...Nike or Wheaties or Gatorade--though the Bulls' physician did make a point of crediting the energy drink for restoring Michael afterward. It was about the team, a team that may in fact dissolve over contract hassles in the off-season. It was about sport, the essence of which Rice captured in his oft-quoted lines: "For when the one Great Scorer comes to write against your name,/He marks--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game...
...count for nothing (President Kennedy's assignations were not covered while he was alive), which was wrong; now it counts for far too much. Gary Hart was no prize, but should his 12 years as a Senator and 39-year marriage be blotted out by his dalliance with Donna Rice...
Tarzan's creator, novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, felt that many of the films made a mockery of his books: Burroughs' hero speaks the King's English; the celluloid Tarzan grunts. But the campiness of the movies is, of course, what makes them so much fun. Unless you are Tarzan scholar George McWhorter, who believes Tarzan appeals because he "represents freedom of choice." For TV viewers, this summer at least, Tarzan represents freedom from reruns of Suddenly Susan...
...Vegetarian food is not just rice and potatoes. It should be more bean-based stuff," says Scott...