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...better job judging what quantity of cod, corn or Cracklin' Oat Bran we take. When you can always go back for seconds, why take a gladiatorial proportion and realize that you are not Maximus as you throw your silverware down the shoot and watch a plate of cold London broil on its way to a Cambridge garbage truck...
...that there is a reason Taco Bell and the Olive Garden have not merged. You are stuck with two entrees, but your stomach cannot even ponder pesto beef let alone the prospect of purchasing yet another pair of pants. As a result, you end up throwing out a plate of Mexican perfection. This can be avoided in three ways. First, you could read the menu as you walk in rather than desperately searching for that girl or boy who won your heart in Justice. Second, you could just skim the offerings before you get in line. Third, you could read...
...good news for Harvard is that everyone, save Dartmouth, will in comparison have a relatively inexperienced roster. But the unanswered question is which one of those teams will step up to the plate this year. Here is the official forecast, according to the preseason coaches' poll...
...Mets' pitcher, Al Leiter, peered down the wind tunnel toward home plate and worked his slightly dumpy face like Jonathan Winters in a twitching crankiness of concentration...
Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...