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Probably the most important difference is that the bowler (pitcher) throws the ball up to the better on the bounce. This may seem crude but it actually makes the whole business much more subtle. The batsman has to watch the ball not only in flight but also as it bounces off the ground; the bowler has many more tricks at his disposal--he can bounce the ball near to or far from the batsman, he can make it spin off the ground and so forth...
...chance for succession until two years ago when the eighth earl was killed in an air crash. The ninth earl is 67 and childless, and Toby (if legitimate) is his lawful heir. This week, as their lawyers droned on, Toby and Tom came to court almost identically dressed in bowler hats, stiff collars, maroon ties. Each denied any animosity toward the other; it was just a family matter that the law should clarify...
...doctor and currently president of London's Cremation Society, declared himself "quite willing to stuff the canvases into the crematoria. I think I should be doing a public service." Aged showgoers hissed such epithets as "hideous!" "unutterable!" and "sacrilegious tommyrot!" One bewildered old boy in a bowler growled that the paintings were just "like French politics-hopelessly muddled...
...Pascin would be ready to paint. He worked quickly and easily. As his guests got gayer, his canvas would get greyer, misted over with the tender twilight sadness that characterized his art. At nightfall he would encase his prematurely aged body in a dapper black suit, jam a black bowler hat on his head and announce that he was ready to go out on the town...
Painter Giorgio de Chirico may be considered old hat at 62, but he wears his bowler with a difference. As the once-reigning genius of Italy's avant-garde "metaphysical school," De Chirico foreshadowed surrealism before World War I, then abandoned such enigmatic art to peddle a perfectly understandable brand of neoclassicism...