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...will take it in stride,” Pertile said in a phone conversation earlier in the evening...
...with siblings, your minds meld and you piece together the story of the big Keillor family meeting at our house in 1947--no need for footnotes or apology, you just sit down in Les Deux Magots cafe and hash it out, as French people of great elegance and purposefulness stride past, one of whom reminds you of your dad, a gray fedora on his head, smiling at the Revere movie camera as yellow streetcars rumble down Bloomington Avenue in 1953, and we children perk up and smile--someone off-camera has told us to smile, and like good children...
...with comics, singers and chorines--became the gold standard of naughty, but not quite vulgar, spectacle: shows where young women might change clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...
...When a guy gets in the box, I’m already looking, thinking about where he’s standing,” he says. “How close to the plate he is, where his hands are, what kind of stride he has, just taking mental notes. I try to pick him apart, and when a pitcher puts it where you want it—I mean, all you have to do is put it there, and I’m going to call a good game...
...BUSH CATCH HIS STRIDE...