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Within such brackets of past and future, the United States will celebrate its 200th anniversary this weekend-a culminating moment of raucous blowout compounded of Disneyland pageantry and kitsch, perfervid oratory, sentiment and sentimentality, dissent, 10,000 miles of bunting, phalanxes of politicians and majorettes in a din of John Philip Sousa brass, and tons of fireworks splashing in the dazzled night...
...second then found its unkind way into the outfield, and the hometowners were in front, 2-0. Next on the agenda was a wild pitch by Werly, and the count went to 3-0. Two more walks later, Penn was on the verge of making it a first-inning blowout, but Werly wriggled free. Temporarily...
...only UNH loyalists who derived any sort of benefit from Tuesday's blowout were those two who received tickets to an upcoming rock concert, courtesy of "The Friends of UNH Hockey," for cheering the most vociferously (i.e. the most obnoxiously) on Tuesday night...
When Cosmo sets off for the hit, he has a blowout on the Hollywood Freeway. He phones a Yellow Cab to take him the rest of the way. Then, while waiting for transportation to arrive, he calls up the Crazy Horse to see how the show is going. He asks the bartender what number is on. The bartender does not know. "Is it the 'April in Paris' number?" Cosmo demands. The bartender still professes ignorance. Cosmo starts barking out hints: "Is Mr. Sophistication singing I Can't Give You Anything But Love? Look on the back wall...
...blowout forced the cancellation of several programs scheduled for the weekend, including a Miles Davis Orgy, a seven-hour New Orleans Blues Orgy, and a Coleman Hawkins jazz program...