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...Redskins made it to the Super Bowl amidst much hoopla, and on January 14, 1973, they faced the unbeaten Miami Dolphins--a team that had lost only one game in the pre-season, and to none other than the Washington Redskins. It made for great press and great excitement...
...There, amidst static and fading frequencies, you can hear Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey--the best broadcasters in the world, bar none--singing out the play by play as Morris racks up yet another...
...SIGN ON the bus featured a stupid-looking Ryan O'Neal standing amidst a harem of bare-assed beauties. Actually they weren't exactly bare-assed; it's just that their ultra-tight blue jeans had plastic windows where the pockets should have been. "So Fine: a revealing comedy," it read. "Coming soon to a theater near you." "So bad," I thought, and continued to fight my way across Mass...
Living and eating well amidst surrounding poverty is easy only if one justifies it with a belief that he is doing something to deserve it, something that makes privilege worthwhile. But Calcutta's intelligentsia seem out of touch with the people they see around them, and they feel their estrangement. There's a joke about the economists charged with increasing India's food production and improving distribution: none of them have ever seen a grainfield in their lives, or even bought their own groceries...
Gould, a student of the history of science, sees the creationist resurgence as a continuation of long-standing historical trends rather than an alarming, new development. Sitting amidst the clutter in his cavernous office at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, he says, "Creationism has always been around. It's only coming up now because with Reagan's politics and the general turn to the right, what was right-wing nuttiness ten years ago is now, if not central, at least acceptable...