Word: jaggedness
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If the Olympics for once really did speak to larger issues of fairness and fellowship, baseball's World Series pitted brother against brother in a vintage New York City gang war. The image that lingers is not of a titanic home run or a dazzling play at shortstop, but of...
But the forces behind the film were a curious mixture of talents who eschewed such a cynical approach. It started with the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. An urbane, failed drama student, he had found his metier with the Beatles. He discovered them brash and raw, and without changing their music...
As Singapore Airlines Flight 006 made the sharp turn onto the runway at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in the middle of a punishing storm on Oct. 31, John Diaz settled comfortably into his first-class seat in the Boeing 747, ready for takeoff. But Flight 006 had...
The Dow was largely excluded from the recent hypervaluation of tech stocks, and so now is it being largely excluded from the bloodbath on Wall Street's hipper half. Mostly, what the Dow has been doing lately is a jagged languishing, seesawing from 10,500 in May to 11,250...
It may be worthwhile to have a postmortem on one moment of notable idiocy that occurred early on, when the Yankee pitcher, Roger Clemens, delivered a pitch that shattered Mike Piazza's bat, the broken barrel of which came flying out toward the mound to be fielded by Clemens. Clemens...