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...McMillan. Signed eventually at the age of 19 by Buddy Bloebaum, another uncle, Rose took just three years in the minors to turn into an annoying presence at Reds training camp in the spring of 1963, threatening to displace well-liked Second Baseman Don Blasingame. The manager, stoic Fred Hutchinson, issued few clarifications. As Rose remembers, "I had been playing enough to think I might have made the team, but I still had a minor league contract when we came home the day before the season opened. Hutch told me to go get a hotel room that night...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dyin' time's here." With that genial salutation, the hunchbacked emcee greets a braying mob assembled for the evening's entertainment at Thunderdome. Welcome to a death duel between that stoic wanderer of the postapocalypse Australian wasteland, Mel Gibson's Mad Max, and his monstrous iron-masked opponent, known as Blaster. You are privileged to witness, as well, an astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history...
...lights cool down to orange, then green, then purple, changing rhythmically as they gauge the emotive beats of the stoic musicians on stage. Last Wednesday night, within a matter of moments, the gracefully decadent Orpheum Theatre was transformed into the morose “city” of Interpol...
Summers was stoic while the FAS docket committee announced that the lack of confidence motion had passed the Faculty, but once the announcement was finished, he covered his mouth with his hand, and his expression soon changed to one of surprise and deep disappointment...
Summers was stoic while the FAS docket committee announced that the lack of confidence motion had passed the Faculty, but once the announcement was finished, he covered his mouth with his hand, and his expression soon changed to one of surprise and deep disappointment...