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On or off the field, ballplayer could make a pretty good pitch 

BY Michael Schwartz

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

A Hollywood director asked if anyone could throw a rock through a house window....

Fitness, should you choose to accept it.(Product)(Brief Article) 

A woman trained in her native Czechoslovakia to become a secret agent (seriously) is coming out with a new line of fitness videos that adds a...

Jucifer: the dynamic duo that has Athens rocking again 

MICHAEL STIPE: First question: Charlotte Rampling or Brigitte Bardot? MICHAEL STIPE: First question: Charlotte Rampling or Brigitte Bardot?...

HOPING FOR A RENAISSANCE 

Celtic's Brazilian international defender Rafael has had a torrid introduction to life in Scotland. Illness and injury have blighted his time here,...

CINEMA: Flop around the CROC; GO2 

JAWS the movie has a lot to answer for. W WEver since those legs first thrashed about in the water to the sound of John Williams's memorable score,...

Lincoln Portrait, A 

Lincoln Portrait, A. Work for speaker and orch. by Copland, comp. 1942. F.p. Cincinnati, May 1942. Spoken words are taken from speeches and...

Crime and justice -- Twelve Angry Men starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb 

TWELVE ANGRY MEN In a sweaty, stuffy deliberating room, 11 men are ready to hang an immigrant kid for allegedly killing his father. And then juror...

War -- The Longest Day starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda and John Wayne 

THE LONGEST DAY If you remember that most of the men who stormed the beaches at Normandy were 18 to 20-year-old kids, this film will give you goose...

Boyle's "Greasy Lake" and the moral failure of postmodernism - T. Coraghessan Boyle 

T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'Greasy Lake' is a postmodern short story in its avoidance of revelation. Traditional short stories tended to include a...