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...penchant for pageantry along with it. A 26-foot animatronic version of Jason Taylor, the Dolphins standout defensive end, stood sentry over the parking lot as a capacity crowd of 81,176 streamed in. Fireworks punctuated player introductions, and a pop band performed at midfield before a ceremonial coin toss. Flashbulbs popped incessantly, lighting the stands like a strobe. The game was sloppy, but the spectacle impressed...
...love,” and it is both universal and contingent. Rorty’s book is an excellent analysis of literature as contingency, but he is still too much of an academic philosopher to understand the flip side of the literary coin...
...clear just where Turner has placed the Carthaginian general. Could he be that minuscule silhouette in the middle distance on a tiny elephant, the one dwarfed by the coiling surf of gray-brown cloud above his head? As the great storm explodes across the canvas, devouring the sickly yellow coin of the sun, the mighty general is just a comma in the larger scheme. This isn't merely history taking place in a landscape. It's landscape as the judgment of history...
...always a little sad to see a true American pastime dying, to know that future generations will not be able to enjoy the simple pleasures that brought so much joy to their forebears' lives. Remember stamp-collecting? Coin-collecting? So it's with a slightly heavy heart that we announce the precarious plight of the national sport of Picking on Ben Affleck...
...song “The Trapeze Swinger,” and the album closer, “Flightless Bird, American Mouth,” is the closest Beam comes to his earliest work. Even some of the less spare pieces manage to work. “Boy With a Coin,” the album’s first single, lopes along to hand-claps and layered vocals, and something even fresher stands out on “The Devil Never Sleeps,” which blends a radio-ready chorus with honky-tonk piano riffs. Still, the album sags...