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...Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become. So are a lot of people. Nobody misses the junkies and peep shows. But can't we bring back some of that naughty bawdy, gaudy, sporty 42nd Street...
Adam Bowman's "whole life and love," he says, is Kakadu. For 12 years he's been taking tourists into the Northern Territory's world-famous national park, aiming to teach his mainly European clients to love the wild land as he does. A favorite spot on his three-day safaris has long been Twin Falls, where a sandy beach borders a deep plunge pool. After swimming about 250 m up a winding gorge to the pool, eating lunch while afloat on air mattresses was a big hit with travelers, says Bowman: "Most said it was the prettiest waterfall they...
Sophomore left fielder Chris Mackey—who celebrated his 21st birthday over the weekend—lined an RBI double to left and advanced to third on a single by Salsgiver. Farkes then laid down a sacrifice bunt to bring home Mackey, and Salsgiver later scored on a wild pitch...
...Crimson tied the game in the fourth when senior Bryan Hale was hit by a pitch to open the inning, Hale advanced to third on a pair of wild pitches and scored on a fielder’s choice...
Meanwhile, renowned shootist Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) has come to town with his retinue. (Most of the leading characters are based on real people.) To Swearengen, the formula is simple: former lawman + gunfighter = nascent police force, especially when the two stumble on a massacre-robbery perpetrated by "road agents" working for him. It seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie...