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...practiced with a group of rookies, "many of whom already had one foot in a liquor distributorship back home," writes Pierce in this bright biography. But soon Brady was guiding an unlikely dynasty, winning three Super Bowls for a downtrodden franchise. Pierce traces the sources of Brady's trademark selflessness, from growing up with three elder sisters to his struggles at Michigan. "If you choose to put yourself apart," Brady says, "you know, play tennis...
...making great plays. She’s wise beyond her years, and it’s great to have someone back there that we can trust.”Facing Brown’s relatively strong middle blocking and weaker outside blocking, the Crimson deviated from its trademark reliance on middle hitters such as Turley-Molony and junior Suzie Trimble and leaned more heavily on its outside hitters.McKinley capitalized on Brown’s weak outside blocking with a match-leading 15 kills.Despite Harvard’s strong attack, the Bears’ league-leading digging resulted...
...indeed much of the humor is aimed at our discomfort with the idea of dying. Unfortunately, Ferrell is terrible as a romantic lead and, worse, uninteresting as a dramatic lead. There’s a lot of dead air when he’s not exhibiting his trademark belligerence. Ferrell is essentially expected to play a comedic straight man; most of the film’s humor derives from his mediocrity in the face of persistent absurdity. It’s a casting disaster: since when was Will Ferrell the everyman?Dustin Hoffman recycles his character from...
...gospel cadence, which rings in the air for a second before ODB enters and brings the record down into the gutter, where it stays for another 12 tracks. From that moment on, it’s all crazy laughs, bizarre chants, and Ol’ Dirty’s trademark off-key, off-kilter vocals. ODB’s hoarse, strangely resonant voice is in full effect, veering unpredictably from off-key wailing to deep, eerie harmonization. The concept of dynamic variation is anathema to him: for ODB, if it’s worth saying, it’s worth...
...aisles of the store itself. When Flav’s limousine finally arrived, there was more than the typical excitement surrounding a celebrity sighting in the air. There floated a tense uncertainty, as if those present wondered whether such an absurd character could exist in real life. One trademark shout later, though—a gravelly “FLAVOR FLAAAAAAAAAV”—and all such fears were put to rest. For the televised William Drayton is not a caricature at all. The line to meet Flav was so long because he spent a solid five minutes...