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...Well, I’m sorry,” I said in a real acute whisper.“No you’re not,” he shot back. Then he immediately went back to singing. The insolent codger!I flushed with shame as I was thrust from the pew. Of course I couldn’t challenge his abuse now that I stood in plain sight of every parishioner (yet again!). So, what could I do but offer him a winsome smirk—a way of saying to everyone else, “No no, that...
...season, Harvard was consistently among the top ten teams in the country, even reaching as high as No. 4 in the rankings at one point. But while the Crimson won nearly all of its games against inferior opponents, the team could not thrust itself into the top-tier of national powerhouses, finishing 0-5-2 against squads ranked sixth or higher...
...last piece of prose and memorabilia - their incunabula. A more learned version of Misery's Annie Wilkes ("I'm your number one fan"), the Incunks speak in part to a writer's fear of having their unfinished, unpolished work stripped from their cold, dead hands (metaphorically, of course) and thrust out into the world...
...time in the next five years. So we're not going to have the same kind of growth we had in the '90s, which was technology driven. And the decade we are currently in was really credit driven. As for this economy, I can't see where the big thrust is going to come from, so it's going to be a very slow growth recovery, and that means earnings growth will be relatively modest. Typically, from a bear market bottom you have a 30% to 50% rise, but this time because the earnings growth will be mild, I think...
...comic book: (1) that it simply had to be made into a movie and (2) that it couldn't. An epic superhero saga, spanning 45 years, with six major characters who all sport double identities and crucial, intertwined back-stories, does not lend itself to the narrative turbo-thrust of a standard action film. Indeed, the superest hero of the bunch - Dr. Manhattan, once known as Jon Osterman - is not an action hero; he's a passive one, a contemplative godhead, a sinewy blue nude Buddha, emotionally removed from the comic's central whodunit quest: Who killed Eddie Blake? A.k.a...