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...cool as Olympic sports might look from the couch, rest assured that you are not necessarily missing anything by not being there in person. The luge, for example, is just kind of a whizzing noise and a blur every 50 seconds, after which everybody looks at one another and laughs the laugh of people who were just screwed into paying $1.25 per second of entertainment...
Since the room’s dedication, guests of the University—including visiting professors and Matthiessen’s biographer—have used the library, even sleeping on the room’s fold-out couch, but there have been few public exhibitions of the room in the past few years...
...found a new theme: Sept. 11 sells! Hence the ads that drip mawkishness like a melting candle (those Budweiser Clydesdales bowing before lower Manhattan) or, like the astonishingly crass Kenneth Cole glossy, somehow link the tragedy to soulful sex ("On September 12, fewer men spent the night on the couch...
...This is the best night ever!” Elana says, cracking up. Once inside again, Nick heads to a room with a piano. He jumps on the keys and begins serenading Elana with the chords to different hip-hop songs. Brendan and Elana settle in on the couch and get a chance to talk more intimately. From a discussion of “The Simpsons,” Brendan smoothly segues into demeaning Nick. “Whatever you’re saying is not true!” Nick shouts over the chords...
...father would have been ecstatic over the New England Patriots’ recent Super Bowl victory. He rarely missed a game, watching from the couch in our living room, shouting at the television much like many other fans. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that my father and this year’s Patriots squad were inexplicably tied together. Creating an analogy between a man and a football team may seem trite to some, but much of my father’s happiness was derived from his intense support of Boston professional sports...