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...Gifford, who anguishes, with the italicism that is appropriate to a Monday morning quarterback of the Crucifixion, "What if he's innocent?" Jimmy Johnson has become a Christ-figure too, and before Gifford can finish his narrative/life, he must accept the burden of fingered Jimmy, who, albeit begrudgingly, bore the sins of a half-dozen tainted witnesses off to prison...
...sure that they liked it, which may be one of our national problems. In politics, we have produced a generation of thrill seekers, men and women who thrive on disaster. Most of these people-fortunately for the rest of us-found that living with themselves was a big bore and went foraging in Moscow, Peking, Lisbon and Jerusalem. Those left behind in the steamy streets made more sense...
...become a conglomerate, CBS has made some onerous acquisitions. To compete with RCA, it bought Hytron, a manufacturer of inferior TV sets, and finally abandoned it at a loss of $50 million. Shortly after CBS bought the New York Yankees in 1964, the glamorous team became a second-division bore. It was sold...
...happens, a swarm of small earthquakes had taken place at approximately the time of the Moscow meeting. Aggarwal's subsequent analysis bore out the Russian claims: before each quake, there had been a distinct drop in the lead time of the P waves...
...Surely it must be singing lustily, as did William Blake. Who invented the most uncomfortable method of fishing? The appropriately named Thomas Birch, who tried to make himself inconspicuous to the fish by dressing up as a tree. What is the most gallant method of repulsing a bore at a party? Undoubtedly, Robert Browning's: "But, my dear fellow, this is too bad. I am monopolizing...