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...persuasive playing powerful men - like Brutus, become sere and weary trying to rationalize ambition as idealism - or ancient ones. His centuries-old Count Dracula has the sepulchral poignancy of a majestic senior citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear him grow, and grow old, in a single hour, listen...
Even though the words New York are in front of their name, the Mets are not urban. In fact, they are the hokiest team in baseball. Their mascot is some horror-movie reject with a smiling baseball for a head, cleverly named Mr. Met. When a Met hits a home run, a sizable, but not actually big, apple bobs up from something that looks like a magician's hat. The stadium opens in centerfield to display a huge, distant U-Haul sign. Airplanes from neighboring La Guardia Airport fly overhead every other inning. Then there is a poor approximation...
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