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...Crimson more than adequately adjusted to capitalize. Snapping quick passes to his wide receivers and finding seams in the Northeastern zone, Fitzpatrick efficiently marched the offense the length of the field time and again, rarely risking a dangerous throw when so many safe alternatives were available...
...wistful generalities such as “I want to breathe again / I want to dream / I want to float a quote like Martin Luther King,” and stuff that just makes no sense, like, “I want to bathe in grape / must swim the length of the milky way.” Stipe’s whiny drone lends itself to unspecific philosophical maxims, so R.E.M. has always gotten away with more than a normal amount of this sort of thing, but many of the lyrics seem to shy away from actually making any points...
Given the recent litany of movies and campaign advertisements, it does seem plausible that the market for political films (of either the thirty-second or feature-length varieties) has been saturated...
...stretched from door-to-door. Shortly thereafter, four men slipped between cars and entered ours at the far end, where they remained huddled prior to entering the next station. As we pulled to a stop, one, wearing a baseball cap with interlocking red and black sections, walked the full length of the car and sat down at the opposite end, soon joined by the only one of the four not wearing a similar hat. The other two gazed past us towards their associates. The doors snapped shut, and we headed into the tunnel bridging Pacific and 36th Streets...
...train crawled between the two stops. We hadn’t even passed 9th St. before the gray-capped thug, no more than five years older than I, slid down the length of the bench in our direction. I had lived in New York for 18 years and never been mugged. I’d even cast aside the questions from blockmates about how dangerous the city can be, proudly proclaiming how comfortable I was alone on the subway...