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...been moving my sinker in and away. I feel good. There are puzzles to work out, but it's enjoyable work." He is a devotee of puzzles, particularly the crosswords in the New York Times, and has come across himself on occasion. "Bench's battery-mate." He lets out a laugh, one of his high-pitched cackles. Johnny Bench still toils in Cincinnati, but he's not a catcher any more, and Bench's battery-mate is back in New York City, mostly to drum up customers, maybe to prepare himself for what he considers...
...seeks laughter, as a train rider so jolted he pops his grapes into his seat mate's mouth, and tears, as a soldier whose trench mate dies in his arms. The man loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His expression changes quickly, precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self...
...seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person to make us make the hard choices." Australians face the first such choice this week as they determine whether Hawke's challenge is indeed prodigious, or simply presumptuous...
Traditionally, it is couples, not generations, that have their songs. Rick and Ilsa would put themselves in a trance by getting Sam to sing As Time Goes By in Casablanca. Sometimes we have more than one special song, or a different song for a different mate or a different archaeological layer of our lives...
...Neil was on the ice for the decisive overtime goal, and was pictured in a widely-reprinted photo smashing his stick across the goalposts in anger after the winning goal. Now, with the BC offense pouring it on, he zoomed up the middle, took a pass from line mate Scott Harlow and slammed the disc past Davidner for the Eagles' final goal of the night...