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...long been a fan of Elvira, not just because she's sexy or funny, but also because Elvira (a.k.a. Cassandra Peterson) comes from Colorado Springs, Colo., and I root for anyone who shoots for stardom from my home state...
Eric Baugher, 29, of Bowie, Md., is Top Gun, chiefly because his toolbox decal jauntily proclaims him so. Throughout the Viper's stunning aerobatics, Baugher stood rooted to the tarmac manipulating a tiny radio that controlled the sleek, alcohol-powered jet, which has a 4-ft. wingspan and a 5-ft.-long fuselage. Baugher was one of 1,139 model-airplane fanatics who trundled 7,000 tiny planes into the Norfolk area to compete in the National Model Airplane Championships. Known widely as the Nats, the show is the largest, most diverse gathering of its kind on the globe...
...explained to her that sports is its ownculture. It has its own language. Its heroes. Itsvillains. (Who is hero and who villain depends, ofcourse, on who you root...
...Whitney show takes on a special poignance from the fact that Mapplethorpe is now in the midst of a debilitating struggle with AIDS; that the show contains so much work produced in the past year is a tribute to his powers. But boundless drive has always been at the root of his work. His imagery bears the stamp of passion, an aesthete's passion, even in a century in which beauty has an uncertain status as a basis for art. Mapplethorpe does not care; he is a true believer. The poet Czeslaw Milosz, musing on the visible world, once wrote...
...sickness. No Yankee fan, no true Bronx Bomber, could root for the Red Sox. But I have...