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...wheezing kid flailing about, the whole thing's always an underrated spectacle. Who can turn down a bunch of kids enjoying themselves while a show is going on in their midst? The feat of training and rehearsals is truly stupendous and deserves some attention. Good, clean fun without a trace of smut...
...which transformation would you prefer? At age 47, would you rather be a linear extrapolation of your present self, or a radical discontinuity that no one but your family could trace? It would be nice to think that we have some choice in the matter, but the signs of success in one pursuit or the other come all too late. A friend of my father's once intended to take a still-frame photo of his face every day for 50 years using a movie camera. The idea was, as I understand it, to eventually play the entire reel from...
Giuliani, who may be the only Italian in the Greater New York area with no trace of personal charm, cannot be imagined in La Guardia's most memorable mayor-as-character role--reading the funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...
...many ways the crowd reflects your success," Sproule said. "Our crowd has suffered over the years, and you can probably trace that back to our lack of success over the last few seasons...
...that move alone, however, that secured Kulik highest honors. His entire routine, skated to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, was playful and precise. He landed every one of his eight triple jumps flawlessly. And when the competition was finished, the generally impassive skater even managed to show a trace of humor. "The shirt won," he joked to reporters, referring to his less-than-becoming giraffe-print top. "It's lucky. I don't think I'll be getting any more questions about the shirt...