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...seems that, in a sense, sports resembles theatre. The plot twists on a large stage before a national audience usually end up as either slapstick or Shakespeare. Either way, the unpredictable element of every move engenders a certain mystique that makes important games what they...
...First Amendment protects the right to waste somebody's time," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "In all political speech there's an element of caveat emptor - it's up to the consumer to discern how truthful what they're reading and hearing is." In addition, says Sanders, "political speech receives the most protection of any type of speech under the First Amendment. And as part of political speech, parody is protected. The question is at what point does a parody descend into what might be considered fraudulent activity, in which you're soliciting money under false pretenses." On that...
...something was very different. Even if just for a short while, the element of risk, as inseparable from the market as it was invisible during a long run-up, had reimposed itself on investor psychology in a cathartic half a day of pain. "All those people who somehow figure that Wall Street owes them money found out that it doesn't," says Laszlo Birinyi, CEO of market-research firm Birinyi Associates in Westport, Conn. "The market doesn't work like that...
...draws laughs as he attempts to bomb the visiting Pope, Bunny withholds her cooking from Artie until their honeymoon while freely dispensing sex, and Artie himself has his wife and girlfriend side by side as he vacillates between tender words and cruelty towards each. The plot has an element of fantastic unreality which leaves one wondering if Bananas is in fact the only sane character in the show. Within this dizzying action the mystery of Bananas' sickness and her underlying personality unfolds as we watch her fondle her husband's discarded jacket and blossom only after his off-handed...
Another modification I would make to golf is to add a defensive element. Competition is a decidedly American value, and the problem with golf is that golfers pride themselves in "competing against the course." Well, frankly, competition against inanimate objects has never attracted a good television audience (note: see the San Francisco-San Diego Super Bowl for reference...