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...gazillion corners, but we didn't score off any of them," said co-captain Beck Stringer. "We dominated most of the game. I think everyone knew that. But we didn't get the ball in the cage...
Close your eyes and think back to Frosh Week: the mixers, the lines at the Union, the massive tent with a gazillion organizations railing at you to sign their lists. Remember the dizzying confusion? Remember signing up for the strangest clubs centered around activities you never even knew existed? Remember thinking "we-ell, I guess I might be interested in that, I'm not sure, I never tried...," scribbling your name on a sheet of paper and dashing for the exit of the tent...
...very own health commissioner for the water panic--not the fact that tests had found unacceptably high levels of bacteria in more than 10% of the samples. After criticism from the mayor, the commissioner lifted the advisory, saying it was based on "outdated information," but then dumped a gazillion gallons of chlorine into the pipes--just in case. Officials of the water utilities association said that people would be able to taste the chlorine and it might be more "than they could handle." Health experts recommended showering in a ventilated area to avoid breathing poisonous chlorine gas. The Washington Post...
...that pretty much completes the short list of pleasures afforded by writer-director Alan Pakula's adaptation of John Grisham's gazillion-copy best seller. Mostly this is a movie about people getting in and out of cars, which either do or do not blow up when they turn on the ignition. They also talk on the phone quite a bit, usually in darkly lighted rooms, to callers who are not entirely forthcoming in their messages. From time to time, they are chased by nameless people who are boringly expert at dealing out sudden death...
Tucked in between Brine Sporting Goods and Calliope, the Florist's facade is dominated by an overflowing display of green. And white. And red. And orange. And brown. I counted something like ten different colors of plants and flowers in the storefront, plus about one gazillion different tones of said colors. The visual effect can be dumbfounding; in my notebook I have one helpless observation: "flowers everywhere...