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...seeing that? Aw. You ought to rent The Grapes of Wrath, then watch a Yankees game. And I guarantee you will see it. Well, I can't guarantee you. You're actually the first person who has reacted that way. The reaction I've gotten from everybody else is, 'Yeah, that's right, I can't believe I haven't noticed that...
...political events in Cuba may look promising to some, Balmori, Lage, and Velo-Arias foresee little actual positive change in Cuba’s government. Velo was working late the night they announced that Fidel Castro was formally stepping down. Though he had long thought about this moment, his reaction surprised him. “It struck no emotion,” he says. “I thought I would be happy but I realized that we are dealing with a government that doesn’t play by the rules and real change will not come from above...
...Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into the status quo over the course of decades, banning American trade, then tourism, then remittances, and finally any business exchange with foreign firms that violate Cuban alienation. In a triumph of branding, this last restriction was named the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, on the presumption that the best...
...raccoons—the latest of whom he named Marco Polo.While these kinds of anecdotes became the centerpiece of his application for the show, Grosslight said he had never quite thought of himself as a nerd before being approached in Café Pamplona. “I think my reaction was, ‘Am I really that much of a geek?’” Grosslight said. He added that, upon later reflection, his colleagues pointed out that he tended to wear geeky sweaters and that it likely had appeared that he was “being...
...feel about the missteps of today's young stars? -Ryan Youell, Williamsburg, VA.You're never going to change the fact that it's hard for some people to deal with their lives, but you can change your reaction. Give them their space and privacy. The worst thing about our society is that it revels in people's difficult times...