Word: browns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy and infectiously enthusiastic. Today's whistle-stop is typical. As usual he's smiling, shaking hands and shocking new employees with his distinctive laugh, a rapid honk that sounds like a flock of Canadian geese on nitrous oxide. He's an average-size man with thinning hair, warm brown eyes and a face that suggests Kevin Spacey with more than a hint of Frank Perdue. His uniform tends to be white or blue button-down shirts with collars that efficiently snap rather than button down. Also khakis. You get the feeling that if he wore a tie (he doesn...
...They watch the countryside pass, content. We are surprised, with them and most riders, that they do not want to know where we're from. Why are they not curious about us, the Americans here to save them? At their house, a bent-over salmon-colored ranch on a brown-dirt street, they ask us if we'd like to come in for a cold drink. We decline, must move. They scoot out. In the process, the daughter's shoe catches on the seat and loses its heel. She looks up, embarrassed, horrified. "New shoes too," says...
...retire Peanuts in winter. It's the setting of so many of the strips (the last daily one will appear Jan. 3) and the season that best captures his graceful art and playful yet melancholy spirit. Perhaps it's because the lyrical, jazz-inflected animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas remains Yuletide TV's high point after 34 years. Perhaps it's because the snowscapes of Schulz's youth in Minnesota, America's Scandinavia, were the most evocative setting for his wry, unsentimental, slightly Bergmanesque take on childhood's pleasures and cruelties--a season of chilly beauty, ice skating...
...nice for people to stop saying that the Cleveland Browns' Orlando Brown had cause to attack a referee for throwing a flag in his eye in Sunday's game. I mean, Orlando, so what if he threw a flag in your eye. Big deal. You and your Browns get worse beatings from your opponents every Sunday...
...want ESPN's greatest athlete of the century to be Muhammad Ali, followed by Jordan as a close second. Babe Ruth should be third and Jim Brown fourth. Those athletes have been announced as their final four. I would have maybe had Wayne Gretsky or Jesse Owens ahead of Brown, but hey, they're all great...