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LONDON Notting Hill dandies sport Paul Smith's rainbow stripes...
...technology to allow papers to talk and sing—yet. (Did you see Harry Potter? If wizards can do it, surely Bill Gates can, too!)This, my friends, is how you cheer. I’ve seen many students coming out to the recent home football matches. They sport their fancy new, ‘Crimson Crazies’ T-shirts, get into the stands, and then…do nothing.I mean, nothing. Like zilch. Minus zilch. Which equals? Zilchy zilch.And I’ve been known to raise my voice a time or two or million...
...often overshadowed by background noises, such as people murmuring in a restaurant or traffic on a puddle-filled street. The only breaks from the film’s monotony are certain melodramatic sequences, such as one in which Kearns, driving around at night, spots cars on the street that sport his new invention. Ominous orchestral music plays, and the revving engines and facelessness of the drivers combine to transform the cars into frightening beasts. The film begins to redeem itself toward the end, as Kearns finally takes Ford to trial. Once in the courtroom, the natural drama that a trial...
...hearts of Yankee fans, and all true devotees of baseball, not because of its many championships—and other trophies to the vanity of man—but because of the noble spirit, the magnanimity which it has always represented and with which it had imbued the sport...
...unshaven slovenliness common among other teams. Yankee management never passed over into that netherworld of statistics and other alchemical arcana; rather, they continued to rely on what had always worked: character and heart. The Stadium, their home in the Bronx, stood firm for what was best about the sport, as other, lesser teams floated aimlessly in a sea of unchecked change...