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Delta is surprisingly organized. Unfortunately, their organization can't make up for the rain, fog, or LaGuardia's typical chaos and congestion. I receive a green ticket, number 90, and I'm directed into a line with other spiritually and emotionally broken travelers. We all sit down like a herd of sheep, forced into a corner with nothing but concrete under our feet. "We" are mostly college kids and a few lonely professionals and grandparents...
Boarding the 5:30 flight at 5:50, they get up to green ticket number 82! So close and yet so far. My heart picks up the beat, in anticipation of a miracle, but to no avail. The herd mumbles that we should have taken the bus or train. Loyalists and optimists disagree with these dissenters, citing horror stories of eight-hour train rides with enough bodies in the car to cause a fire hazard and odor alert. A Harvard student declares, "It is times like these when you wish you went to Columbia...
...circus ring itself was established and perfected in order to allow a rider to stand and perform tricks on a moving horse. When it comes to equestrian acts, Kaleidoscape does not disappoint. Sylvia Zerbini's glowing white Liberty horses enter the ring as magically as if they were a herd of unicorns, and gracefully circle the ring responding to her every word and motion...
...supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes you on a spellbinding journey of his vocal arsenal - swooping, clipping, playing with the beat, riding herd on the back-up band. In those lines, as with the rest of the song, you never know where Jones is going to lead you; at the same time none of it sounds forced or contrived. The whole happy confection is aided by the spare production of his first producer...
...index flirted with in mid-July and late August before sagging each time to its current 3400-range lows. Statistically, an index tends to find parameters for each phase of its behavior, and the sunniest outlook emerging from Wednesday's mini-bounce was the idea that the trading herd won't take the index any lower than that "floor" of 3400. (Of course, some were claiming today that a further shakeout has to hit - 3200, 3000 - before the NASDAQ can rally back for real...