Word: afternoon
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...mind you guys comin' round my house," Soupy Sales once said to the off-camera guys who were cracking up at his jokes, "but why'd you have to bring cameras in?" His afternoon TV show, which was aimed at kids and ran in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York off and on from the 1950s through the '70s, had the seeming informality of a friendly fellow you would hire to entertain the tots. He'd crack venerable jokes, play with puppets, teach the occasional verity ("Don't eat just before dinner") and, at the end, get a custard...
...This afternoon I noticed some small groups of ladybugs around the windows of our suite—I then went outside to discover that they've taken quite a liking to the outside wall of Moors facing the quad, and so some must have decided to explore inside our slightly-open windows. Folks living in Holmes and Wolbach have reported the same...
...third album, comes after a five-year gap in their discography. That long wait makes its blandness all the more underwhelming. Despite the delay, the new album sounds like Øye and Bøe simply wandered into the studio with their guitars one balmy afternoon. While the songs are as tranquil (and drum-shy) as ever—though perhaps a wee bit sunnier, thanks to a hint of bossa nova influence—they’re effortless in a way that suggests lack of precision rather than artistic aptitude...
...This afternoon I noticed some small groups of ladybugs around the windows of our suite—I then went outside to discover that they've taken quite a liking to the outside wall of Moors facing the quad, and so some must have decided to explore inside our slightly-open windows. Folks living in Holmes and Wolbach have reported the same...
...blossoms into a sprawling research project. A few years ago, Ian decided he needed to understand economics, so he bought a batch of textbooks off of Amazon and EBay to work through. Most days, he says, he puts in an hour or so on Wikipedia. On a recent October afternoon, “William III of England” is open on his computer—just to look into some English history, he says. The accumulation of knowledge is like the gathering of currency: it works to your favor to have more. In Ian’s mind, college...