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This Sporting Life: Meaning and Underpants

By Jeff MacGregor
Page 2

Monday, August 10, 2009

A few brief and scattered thoughts this week on the nature of fame, on the presence of absence, on the goods and on the greats, on life and memory and on what we leave behind, on legacy and heresy and parlor games, on the defining definition of "defined," and on what it all might mean. If by "all," that is, you mean "some." So. Sad news last week when we lost filmmaker John Hughes much too young to a heart attack at the age of 59. And whether or not you were a fan, you had to notice that all ...

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