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...little-known outlaw became Genet the national treasure (who then had trouble finding anything to write about). White places the beginning of this dry spell in 1949. That was the year the French president, in response to a letter written by Sartre and Cocteau and signed by a slew of intellectuals, issued Genet a pardon for a possible life sentence. The pardon represented an official endorsement by the French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years...
...Some things defy description, and that slew of late Red Raider goals would have to be one of them...
...time defending champion Brown is the strong favorite to threepeat, but a slew of contenders, headed by Harvard, will not make it easy for the Bears...
What you would expect from the movie--good fight scenes--are noticeably missing. The two big showdowns between Robocop and the Japanese ninjas are horribly choreographed. You only get a slew of bullets, stupid car chase scenes and only about 50 deaths. Even flying Robocop is a let-down...
...game has ever seen. But can it be argued that those men are better than the great defensive players of the sport, like Taylor, or Dick Butkus? The offensive and defensive games can't be properly compared. So how about Major League Baseball? Right now, there is a slew of young talent. Barry Bonds, Frank Thomas, Roberto Alomar, Juan Gonzalez, and many more. But the fact that they are all young prevents them from being serious considerations in this debate. In baseball, more than any other sport, longevity is extremely important. The sport is not as physically demanding, so players...