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...Bertone walking alone on a side street near St. Peter's and went over to say hello and shake his hand. He stopped on a dime when he heard his name, turning toward me with his arms spread open, and practically sang out in his baritone, "Oooh! Carissimo! How's it going!?" And we had never even met before...
...cliche move in these situations is “Oooh! I’m gonna go capture the other team’s mascot!” Lame! What we did was go and capture the mascots of all the high schools that Yalies attended. As we write this column, we’ve got 400 teens in bobcat costumes over in an Allston warehouse, and you can catch all of their barely legal furry action in a forthcoming adult feature...
NICHOLSON: Me too. I'm ashamed to admit it, but the first thought through my mind when I heard that he died was not, Oooh, Stanley, my dear friend. It was, F___. Not going to get to do another movie with him. I wouldn't have suspected that would have been my reaction, but it's true...
...numerical possibilities with a minimum of means. All right. I acknowledge the game's elegance. And, heaven knows, I'm a number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...
...that sticks in one's mind more firmly than any blood-splattered image. Describing the immolation of suspected communist sympathizers?women and children included?in an air raid shelter, he focuses with almost casual detachment on the sound of slaughter: "Suddenly a muffled, moaning sound, kind of like the 'oooh' a crowd of people might make, rose up all around us like some sort of wind?and then, all at once, we were engulfed in flame...