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Unfortunately, for those of you now on the edge of your seats awaiting news of certain victory I have only idle speculation and prolonged delay to offer you. You see, the women's hoop squad was to call in the story from a near-by city phone booth collect after the match en route to catching a Broadway show (Annie, for those of you who are curious...
...Columbus of television sportscasting. Said he: "I had no idea when to keep my big, fat, flapping mouth shut." The insight dawned too late to be of much use to Stern, but it might have been of value as a guide for his heirs. Unfortunately, nobody in the broadcast booth was listening. The result is the TV sports event as it is today: an entertainment genre in which an athletic game must compete for attention with the convulsive concatenations of blah-blah-blah that passes for commentary...
...boom in new issues has always been followed by a crash. In the late 1960s investors rushed to buy electronics stocks, and in the early 1970s new computer firms were the rage. Both markets ultimately collapsed. Recalls Stanley Pratt of Venture Capital Journal: "Then two guys in a phone booth could raise several million dollars just by coming up with an idea, putting the suffix 'onics' on the end of it and making it public...
...more of those sarcastic prosecutorial voice-overs about the other guy, the pitchman's tone as low and urgent and insinuating as a whisper of Cassius in the ear. No more that tussling, scuffling sound of the reluctant national psyche being dragged on a leash toward a booth with curtains and a lever...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works, how we as playgoers are carried across the threshold from reality to illusion in the twinkling of a craftsmaster...