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...sized them up. Matt’s straightened hair had grown since the spring; it fell gracefully onto his white dress shirt, framing a full beard. Andrew, who styles his shorter blonde hair with gel and has a habit of stroking his goatee, wore small-framed glasses and Diesel jeans. “Well, you gotta try to blend in,” the Nashville native told them. “You gotta master the Woohoo! and the ye-ah.” He laughed. “Oh man, holy shit. Well,” and he looked them...
...continued when Mills brought me out to the set in Portland, Ore., where he was re-creating my upbringing (or my fictional version of it), using people who were much better looking than I remembered. Lou Taylor Pucci, who plays Justin (the character I had modeled on myself), is shorter and darker-haired than I am, but his aura and manner were so weirdly familiar that I shivered when I shook his hand. I shivered again when Pucci winked at me and popped his right thumb into his mouth, performing the act without any of the embarrassment that still haunted...
...MIKE: All the players are very upset by a few tournament directors pushing to have doubles matches shortened with no ad scoring and shorter sets. We met twice with the players in Cincinnati because we all feel that something has to be done. At Cincy, they were selling t-shirts with "Doubles Yes" on the front and "ATP No" on the back. Several coaches, players and agents were also in the room-including famed agent Pat Jensen and Tennis Channel founder and tournament director Steve Bellamy. I won't go into the discussions at this time but look...
...older diagnostic standards are undergoing a technological makeover of their own. Echocardiogram machines are getting smaller and smaller, and their output is increasingly being digitized, which allows doctors to calculate more accurately the ability of the heart to function. And new radioactive markers are making nuclear perfusion scans shorter and more precise...
Some of the reasons for Jack's surge are self-evident. Listeners like shorter commercial breaks and more songs. And Jack is centered on the '80s, which is still fascinating kids in high school and college. But the programming is shrewd in the way it affirms the identity of its listeners. At its heart, Jack is a nostalgia station for Generation X, but it disguises that fact with carefully selected obscure tunes (Walking Away by Information Society, Pop Goes the Weasel by 3rd Bass) that make listeners feel erudite and hip. Then there are the laconic, faux-rebellious promos...