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...Thunder forward falls flat on the turf aftera collision. A Blazer jumps on his back, steppingon the visitor to keep him prone, and scoops upthe ball. One quick shot later, and the Blazershave narrowed the gap. No replays in the pressbox, though. This is the only Garden sports eventwhere the complimentary TVs are kept locked...
...visitor to Coleman's office on Manhattan's West 54th Street may feel as if he's stumbled upon the remains of Tin Pan Alley: over there is the old upright piano on which Cy has scored most of his songs, and next to it the thousand- year-old desk, and everywhere theater posters and photographs ("He just keeps putting them up till the wall is full," says his secretary). And through the window pipe the New York City street noises that have inspired the American song ever since Irving Berlin first picked them up in the 1900s...
...motif, Bryson uses the description of the drivers in different countries. He begins with France, claiming that "the pedestrian crossing lights have been designed with the clear intention of leaving the foreign visitor confused, humiliated, and if all goes according to plan, dead." He follows that by telling how blind people and old ladies in wheelchairs can cross without hesitation, but how when he crosses the drivers try to kill...
Such lofty ruminations were a long way from the thoughts of the typical visitor as he swung around his 14th switchback in 10 minutes, in a bus that labored painfully up the mountain curves like a slaloming snail, its driver consulting a map as he lurched along on the two-hour trip from Albertville to such distant sites as Courchevel and Val d'Isere. Any time not spent in a bus in the days before the Games seemed to be spent in a line for a bus. And on the epic rides along treacherous, icy roads, the passenger could...
...detailed discussion of auto parts, semiconductors and rice. By bringing along an entourage of 21 corporate executives, a number of whom are outspoken protectionists and Japan bashers, the President has turned the trip into a trade mission and himself into his own Secretary of Commerce. To such a visitor, the Japanese will find it all the easier to say no. So even in terms of his own obsessively repeated objective, the J word, Bush is likely to fail...