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...gets a duck. If no runs are scored from a six-ball session, that's called "bowling a maiden over." With a lexicon like this, is it any wonder cricket isn't a global game? Well, hold on to your googly - it's threatening to become one. With rabid fans in Africa, South Asia, Australia and of course the U.K., where the game began, the sport has two new World Cup teams this year, growing viewership, expanded corporate sponsorships and elaborate showmanship - and it has put a decade of nasty, high-profile match fixing and betting scandals behind it. Cricket...
...politics are a separate issue from his art. I cannot say that I have read any of Paulin’s work, but my guess is that neither have the vast majority of the 100 or so who protested his appearance. Even if he were the most rabid anti-Semite in the Western hemisphere, the English department’s initial decision to cancel his appearance was irresponsible, especially when those who protested most likely hadn’t been planning to attend the event until they had read Paulin’s quotes...
...their rabid fans will be looking for revenge, and the Crimson will face a similarly hostile environment...
Anderson, working for the fourth time with cinematographer Robert Elswit, uses Sandler’s flashes of animalism to great visual effect; the film’s most lyrical image is of a silhouetted Sandler charging down a dark city street with the manic panic of a rabid cheetah, his tie flapping behind him in hypnotic rhythm. Following through on the theme is composer Jon Brion, who delivers a stripped-down, percussion-heavy score that flowers into a harmonium-accented love theme whenever Lena crosses Barry’s path...
...hand-painted dolls, unautographed, sold for slightly more than $30 to rabid souvenir-seeking tourists at the Olympic Store in Salt Lake City...