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...bluffing to his repertoire, playing pedal-a-dope and forcing Ullrich and his team to do a day's worth of windbreaking work at the front of the field. "When I saw the camera motorcycles pulling up to me, I put on a mask of pain. It was the ideal script, a chance to play a little game of poker. Every time I grimaced, I could feel the Telekom team accelerating," he said after the race. "It wasn't premeditated. It's just a trick we decided to pull during the stage...
...Leesburg, Va., also knew it wasn't as simple as just telling families to buy less. So he revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed a lot less Visa debt and a lot more intangible stuff. What they needed to do, he advised, was "build a bridge between...
...Leiber?s parodies - "aural cartoons," Donald Clarke calls them - were also social criticism; they sounded black but could apply to alienated whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back...
Since it began meetings in April, the 20-person committee has been holding twice-monthly regular meetings. At a special mid-July meeting the committee “invited all members of the Riverside community to attend and share their ideal vision for Riverside. That meeting was attended by over 100 residents...
...play the scheduled freezedance because, besides me, there were no “women” in the class with whom to freezedance—or should I say “freakdance.” He then produced a “picture” of his ideal woman that he had drawn; it featured a topless homegirl with Jessica-Rabbit-style hair seductively covering one eye and a chest as believable as Lara Croft’s. Ah, the joys of community service...