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...rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled, and the paper is done and gone. Journalist friends say they can't understand why she gave up writing, but "the buzz of getting a byline or a splash is the same buzz...
...sport, which seems to involve a lot of submission holds and smeared blood, may surpass both frat-house hazing and Mel Gibson films as the world's most homoerotic event. And while the hooting crowd is clearly loving it, my front-row seats are reminding me just how weak my stomach...
According to Terry Quinn, an F.D.N.Y. veteran and a friend of Leary's who serves as a consultant on the show, the bigoted ball busting is part of a firehouse culture in which guys constantly probe one another's weak spots, something TV's lionization of fire fighters tends to overlook. "Shows like Third Watch are corny, formulaic soap operas," Quinn says. The Rescue Me team is conscious of being more real, more unsparing, morewellcable. Looking over posters for the ad campaign backstage, Leary rejects one that has the main characters in uniform, lined up, gazing upward. "Too heroic...
...U.F.C., which seems to involve a lot of submission holds and smeared blood, may surpass both frat-house hazing and Mel Gibson films as the world's most homoerotic event. And while the hooting crowd is clearly loving it, my front-row seats are reminding me just how weak my stomach is. With all its clean bawdiness, the weirdest part of Vegas is that, for a tourist town, it looks as if it might be growing a real urban center, where people not only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never...
...experience, American audiences are more often than not oblivious to the meanings being attached to the game by fans of the opposition when Team USA has played Iran, Serbia or Mexico in recent internationals. Foer falls down when it comes to finding any greater meaning and offers a weak analysis of the impact of globalization on the game and its fans...