Word: rabbiting
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...services to the American song didn't end with providing a mechanical rabbit for others to chase. He was an incomparable booster of other writers; it's hard to find a rival that he didn't befriend and, if necessary, help. So it's not altogether unfair that when any song from that era is played, someone almost always asks, "Is that by Gershwin...
...place where their chances of getting beaten or murdered for money outweigh the chances of driving away with a good tip. Somehow, though, the Blue Bunny ice-cream truck seems to enjoy safe passage. Every few hours, the old-fashioned white van graced with a goofy baby-blue rabbit comes rolling up playing Pop Goes the Weasel. But the trip is mostly in vain. Kids have long ago learned that a nickel in their pocket is hardly enough to purchase a Popsicle, let alone a toasted-almond...
...Rabbit, Run, John Updike...
...been molding himself into. But even though 35 sounds too young to retire, it's old for an athlete, older for a shooting guard and ancient for the top player in the game. And, perhaps, just old. John Updike, who knows Phil Jackson, had his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom, struggle to recapture the glory of his high school basketball days. "The fact that he peaked so early in his youth makes him true to life, truer than my own life is," Updike once told a reporter. "We all, in a way, peak at 18." Jordan got twice as much...
...special effects. Consider such titles as Raiders of the Lost Ark and the other Indiana Jones movies, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Jurassic Park. Look also at the films he produced but didn't direct, like the Back to the Future series, Gremlins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Twister. The story lines were the stuff of Saturday serials, but the filmmaking was cutting edge and delivered what films have always promised: they showed us something amazing that we hadn't seen before...