Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coaches have been working with me on staying back in the box, on keeping my hands loose and going with the ball," Binkowski said. "[Steitz] had some nice pop on his fastball, but I was able to turn on it and drive...
...like the average 26-year-old," he admits. His latest purchase: a Porsche 911 Cabriolet to go along with his Jaguar and speed boat. He grew up in Seattle, and entertained neighborhood kids with magic tricks, including one in which an audience member put a coin in a varnished box. Warshavsky then made the coin disappear...
...humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" as if it were kids with a Super Soaker...
Stuck between a rock-like dining hall biscuit and a hard, stale box of Entenmann's, Harvard students now have a place to turn. After five years of satisfying the late-night cravings of the Boston area college community, Five Star Cookie Company has added Harvard to its delivery route. Warm, freshly baked cookies, with milk and ice cream on the side, can be delivered to every Harvard student's dorm room door. The menu includes four flavors of hot cookies--chocolate chunk, double fudge, peanut butter cup and oatmeal raisin--eight flavors of tasty Ben and Jerry...
...look. The Buzz, Huffy Bicycle's first foray into the market, has got just about everything right. You'll be able to buy one for $649 in the next few weeks at various retail stores and online at Huffy's website www.getabuzz.com) My demo came in the mail--a box neatly packed with a collapsed 48-lb. lime-green electric scooter. I groaned, thinking that hours of assembly were required. They weren't. The scooter, which is powered by a 24-volt battery and belt-drive motor, is an ingenious collection of folded-up parts and snap-on components that...