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...Somehow - after the desperate agitation of the dress rehearsal - the live show was always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity...
...Somehow, it seems futile to say. "Maybe it?s just the lack of a recovery that?s wearing everybody out," investment strategist Frank Gertz says quotably in this weeks? TIME, and TSTW couldn?t agree more - especially when it comes to himself. Here?s another take, albeit an unintentionally metaphorical one, on the drab and seemingly endless status quo, courtesy of the NYT?s Buster Olney in Monday?s New York Times sports section (metaphor-wrecking phrases excised...
...ramp, I misinterpreted Dennis' signal to slow down for some kind of monster-truck high five and hit the gas instead. I Fonzied five feet over both Caprices, clearing my front wheels by 15 feet. I felt like Bo and Luke, only really scared. When I landed, my head somehow hit the steering wheel and cracked my helmet visor in two, despite the fact that I was buckled in so tight I couldn't move. Sadly, this is how I got my first hickey...
...conquering general. He was taken back to Nanjing, where he became a page to a young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs in the imperial household, guarding the harem and offering wisdom to the dynastic clan. Somehow the prince and the castrate became friends and when Zhu Di launched a coup d'Etat in 1402, Ma was at his side. The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname Zheng and made him head eunuch. When the Emperor sketched out a plan for Chinese ships...
...everyone can write a book but somehow we expect, without quite thinking about it, that everyone should be able to read a book. Maybe that's a smug assumption, like expecting that everyone has a refrigerator. Maybe the assumption is obsolete...