Word: bread
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...summiting Everest was great, probably the greatest experience of his life. But then he thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have to know where to look...
...tune out the pregame, it may make the moment itself more jarring. It is still a rare and godlike thing to know in advance the moment of a person's death - to know that this man with this name in this place will be alive when you put the bread in the toaster and dead when it pops up - a knowledge more awesome than any camera image...
...love for the games they covered. The magic of sports was no longer there for them. Sports was a cycle they had to follow; they could never take a break from the games or the athletes or the endless stories they had to crank out in order to keep bread on the table and their sportscars paid...
...that it delivers exactly what the audience thinks it wants. Whereas great shows spring on the public something it never would have asked for: a sitcom making fun of the Korean War (M*A*S*H), a show about a Cuban band leader and his wife in the white-bread '50s (I Love Lucy) or a farce about the selfish exploits of four whiny New Yorkers (Seinfeld...
...while stationed in Baghdad during the civil war, Kane remembers what he still thinks of as his closest call. During a truce, Kane went with a friend to buy bread and determine the situation outside the American Embassy. Kane heard a shrill police whistle and was convinced he was about to get shot. He turned to find a young child playing with a police whistle...