Word: savioring
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...World Series crown, with the illness of Yankee manager Joe Torre's brother Frank providing a dramatic subplot. I have no doubt that the next underdog to win a World Series, the next player to break some hallowed mark, will be duly hailed as the game's newest savior...
...fashion to turn each new star into a savior? I suspect this has something to do with the frenzy of millennial predictions, spawned by the strike, of the death of baseball. None of these predictions have come true, of course, but nevertheless the attitude lingers that baseball is in deep trouble and needs the Herculean feats of McGwires and Ripkens to keep from teetering into oblivion. This is a myth. Suggesting that baseball needs saviors is to suggest it is in a worse state than it actually is, and only further perpetuates the myth...
...plot is an unlikely stretch of the imagination. It also doesn't matter much that Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, appears too late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns, tanks, limp bodies, bloodshed and explosions...
Slaves to "Baywatch" and KFC all over the planet have a new savior: Canada has declared war on U.S. pop culture. And this is no solo quixotic tilt against the Golden Arches -- Ottawa got the culture ministers of Britain, Brazil, Croatia, Iceland, Mexico and Senegal, among others, on board for a conference on strategies to counter the global dominance of Americana. Needless to say, Washington was not invited, although the official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment...
While we often see you as our savior, here to enhance and brighten our lives, you must also accept that you are the "blue screen of death." Your "fatal exceptions" and "invalid page faults" have been responsible for hours upon hours of lost productivity--productivity that might have been gained with the increased speed you provide...