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Everyone talks about the lack of pitching but one oft-overlooked factor driving this run scoring and power explosion is the quirky character of the new ballparks in baseball. All the new "retro" parks are assymetrical in design and feature at least one short porch making it easy to hit homers...
...sort of great mastery of technique," Morello says. "A lot of noises I make on the guitar you can make very easily. You just have to think. Maybe this switch, worked in conjunction with that pedal, will make a noise that will not resemble a bluesman on the front porch but maybe a bullhorn." Easy? Maybe not. Morello admits he practiced "obsessively" two to four hours a day during his four years at Harvard...
...same thing as a writer) and later, when he and his future wife Suzanne moved to the southern part of the country, to hide weapons. He earned the Croix de Guerre for exploits that were not in his nature; he once hid grenades and dynamite on his front porch, in plain sight, because he was afraid they'd go off inside...
...many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water boy, tax collector for the welfare state, the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland, the Old Man. And, finally, how he believes he will wrench...
That might be one possible explanation for the explosion in sales of such wilderness products as L.L. Bean's portable "vacation home," a tent that sleeps five and includes a screen porch ($499); or the Coleman Company's "Event Center," a 40 1/2-in. collapsible bar with a 37-qt. storage compartment roomy enough for a case of Chardonnay ($29.99); or for the Starbucks-deprived, G.S.I. Outdoors' Mini-Expresso maker, which weighs in at a featherlight...