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Sometimes prosaic things, objects as modest as toast, can trip distant memories, commemorate struggle and celebrate love. Aprons have that power...
...then there was Brazil. Ah, Brazil, whose poetry on the ball made all the European varieties of the game look prosaic. They emphasized the sort of showoff individual skill and creativity that most European training regimes had knocked out of their youngsters by the time of adolescence, creating a giddy and melodic form of the game (personified by the young Pele) in which players routinely did the unpredictable - shooting from 40 yards out; scoring with their backs to goal via an overhead kick; running over the ball to fake out an opponent; as a matter of course taking defenders...
While some of the challenges were quite prosaic, she occasionally found thrills in the kitchen. Once, at Truc, Lydon attempted to filet an eel. The eel, dead for hours, began “twitching beyond twitching.” The whole kitchen erupted into screams...
...she’s also been to more prosaic places in search of a story. “I’m not somebody who’s happiest when they’re at the gate at Logan,” she says. Instead, she likes to travel to non-exotic locales. “To me it’s sort of a thrill to find myself in Kansas City...
...issue was Cambridge University's proposed $40 million state-of-the-art primate-research facility - a project that is bitterly opposed by animal-rights activists and critically important to the British government, which views scientific research as a top national priority. Although the hearing was meant to consider only prosaic issues such as road traffic and policing, planning inspector Stuart Nixon permitted activists to air their antivivisection arguments. Nixon eventually recommended that the primate lab should not be built, but Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, under whose office the Planning Inspectorate falls, last month approved it anyway, saying that...