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Rudyard Kipling, England's national, not to say nationalistic, poet, dismissed England's two national games very scornfully: "The flannelled fools at the wicket, the muddied oafs at the goals." There was a flavor of sour grapes there. Though most will admit the gentlemanly folly of cricket, the imputation of oafishness to football was, even in Kipling's own day, a bit anachronistic. Kipling seems to have had in mind the ancient bloody kickaround of the village green with a dead dog or severed head for ball, not the modern game that started to shape itself...
Thereafter, Maurice testified, they had intercourse seven times in six months. Then sadly came the end of what he called "a good wicket." The Peeks decided to move to Spain's Costa del Sol. "At first I understood I was going with them, but later I learned that this was not the position because there was no room in their new home...
...game of corporate diplomacy to the Ali Shuffle. Relaxed and confident during the press conference in which the decision was first announced. Bok enumerated the constructive trade-offs implemented by the Corporation's decision with all of the rational enthusiasm of a Plimptonesque first-timer. Confronted with a sticky wicket, he had nonetheless prevailed. But as Bok discovered when the call came at dawn Thursday morning, there were people who were not impressed by Harvard's corporate shuffle. Throughout that day and into the next, a steady stream of people both inside and outside the University informed...
...composer in an unsung songwriting team. He is also guardian of his twelve-year-old sister (Susan Neher), who serves as housekeeper for him and his sappy live-in lyricist (Wes Stern), to the agitation of local social workers. The series' premise is a rather icky wicket, and Simon and Garfunkel the boys are not. But, as in The Partridge Family, the cast is disarming and the whole production surprisingly artful...
Both men take a quick interest in Sloane, Dadda because he recognizes the youth as a wanted murderer, Ed because he likes manly young fellows -preferably draped in leather goods. Kath and Ed engage in a game of sexual cricket, with Sloane as the wicket. As is always the case with such games, it is the bystander who suffers. Dadda ends as a mummy, done in during a Sloane tantrum. The outcome is bigamy, accompanied by rituals that ridicule marriage, family, religion, sex and death...