Word: allens
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...everyone agrees with that point of view. "Using fancy fonts and small print may suggest that you're sophisticated, fancy and highbrow, but also pretentious and unapproachable," says Aaron Allen, founder and CEO of the Quantified Marketing Group, a restaurant design and marketing company based in Orlando, Florida. Allen says he recently boosted a barbecue restaurant's sales 17% recently just by making its menu typography more readable, not less...
...with endless clips of Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and, of course, Bird vs. Magic. This year the battle of the NBA's two most storied franchises feature the sport's most breathtaking player, Kobe Bryant, against Boston's vaunted Big Three, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen...
...Against the Spurs, Kobe faced Bruce Bowen, the best on-the-ball defender in the NBA. The Celtics don't have a perimeter stopper quite as good as Bowen, so it's best that they throw different guys at him. Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and James Posey will likely share the burden of stopping Kobe. "All players thrive off rhythm," says Anthony. "If Kobe spots one guy's weakness, he'll run with that all day. If you mix up your defenders a lot, it might make him think. And if he's not just relying on his instincts...
...Luckily for Boston, its arsenal is so varied that Bryant is likely to end up guarding Allen or Pierce. The Celtics set lots of picks for Allen, so they can bruise Kobe a bit in that match-up. Pierce is a lethal scorer off the dribble, and will make Kobe work...
...Allen Ginsberg is an epic poet of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation. Ginsberg represents the North Beach school—San Fancisco’s Greenwich Village, sixteen blocks of bookshops, bars, and jazz bohemia. His epic poem is a free verse tragedy called Howl...