Word: flukes
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...second goal was kind of a fluke,” Vitt explained. “It sort of squeezed through my arm and hit the far post and popped...
This has to be the week that the Bulldogs’ struggling offense gets on track. Everyone has been waiting for quarterback Alvin Cowan to have a truly Playstation-like performance. Running back Robert Carr has proven that his early season breakout wasn’t a fluke, as he sits second in the league in rushing yards per game. Yale has the top wide receiver tandem, in terms of combined yards per game, in the Ivy League—even better than Harvard’s Mazza-Edwards combination...
...losing two games is ridiculous. Though they came out swinging in the ALCS last year, beating New York in the first game, the Yankees won two in a row right after that. And that series went to seven games and in the final game, 11 innings, when only a fluke homerun from Aaron Boone could give the victory to the Yankees. Unfortunately, Aaron Boone won’t be there to help out this time, as he sits knee-injured with the Cleveland Indians. Yes, the Cleveland Indians. That’s gratitude...
...meeting of Dabing and Ling Ling is a one-in-a-billion fluke, for they were childhood friends, bound by movie rapture. Most of the film flashes back to the time of the Cultural Revolution, when the two children had to make do with imagining they could watch films through the boy's "magic" binoculars. This fable of the passions and recriminations of youth is set in a dreamscape that mixes memory with wish fulfillment. It's China's Cinema Paradiso, but a much more honest, less cloying film...
...perhaps to some malicious fluke in the internal wiring of human nature, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as cruising (albeit only at a cool 15mph) through the EZ-Pass lane at a particularly large and heavily trafficked toll plaza, while dozens of cars slow to a gridlocked crawl around you. What you probably aren’t thinking about, however, as you revel in the glory of your Schadenfreude, is your divorce proceedings, 10 years down the line. There, your present-day fiancee (at that point your soon-to-be ex-wife) might be using records...