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It’s pretty close to the same joke as in Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, but it’s nevertheless effective. As Stone puts it, “it feels like one of our movies” and audiences should respond. Indeed, as South Park continues to get smarter and quicker, Parker and Stone—a couple of former waterheads from the University of Colorado—have accidentally become the elder wisemen of our time. Despite the TV show’s superficially immature bag of jokes, the American public—or at least...
Football and vomiting are not as unrelated as they might seem. In Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, for example, Jamie Foxx’s character throws up on the field when he sees the enormity of the crowd. Nevertheless, the sight of a player vomiting in an actual game—especially in the middle of a play—came as a surprise, though Tully is confident that dehydration and the recent hit were to blame, rather than nerves...
...Though every team likes closing out matches in the fourth frame, it was especially important to Harvard, considering it had lost all six matches which went the distance in 2003. The Big Red jumped out to an imposing 28-21 lead, but the Crimson refrained from using a timeout. Nevertheless, Ogbechie and Schweitzer led a furious counterattack of six straight points culminating with an ace. Cornell, however, took the next two points to close out the frame and force the tiebreaker...
...Nevertheless, his name benefited from a meteoric rise within scouting circles when he was a Tiger for his possession of baseball’s mythical five “tools”: running fast, throwing hard, hitting for average, hitting for power and fielding ability. Thus, he was drafted in the second round (48th overall) of the 2004 MLB draft by the Cincinnati Reds...
Loeb reiterates the oft-expressed but nevertheless important point that too often people take the outcomes of history for granted and forget how they came about. “We know that women got the vote, but we don’t all know how…All we know is the conclusions, not the process,” he said. No one considers Susan B. Anthony a failure, he pointed out, even though she died 12 years before women got the vote...