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...fascinating, if not heartening, to see how the sexes wittingly embrace their stereotypes. The men (competing under the testosterone-y name Versacorp) exude enough arrogance and aggression to fill a trading pit. The women (doing business as Protege Corp.) don sexy stewardess outfits to pitch an ad campaign for a jet-leasing company. Their "manager"--advertising executive Donny Deutsch--sounds both appalled and impressed as he says, "You've set the women's movement back 70 years...
...thinking...‘I think I can pit him easily—I was in the army and I know some tricks,’” Chen said. But he said he ultimately decided that it was “not worth the trouble...
...pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate of jolly old England...
...Maybe we could hang out with the Pit kids. I bet they’d like...
...Lowell’s corps of dedicated, if a bit eccentric, klappermeisters to just pick up and find a new weirdly cultish pseudo-extracurricular? With all due respect, fathers, if you want some bells, I hear there’s a really great Salvation Army Santa Claus playing the Pit this week...