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...ballpark, I catcall the newly muscled Barry as he stands in the outfield. I holler at him, make loud choking noises, yell rhetorical questions: "Hey Barry, nice one! Why couldn?t you play like that in Pittsburgh?!" I pull my Pirates hat down low over my eyes and glower at the disgustingly cheerful Giants fans, who are all chatting away on their late-model Nokias and sipping celery sodas...
...There is so much schmoozing going on that scant attention is paid to the awards themselves. But there are cheers when Soderbergh wins Best Direction. Russell Crowe's win draws mixed reactions. Some women gush with happiness. Most of the men glower. One wag at the table defends Crowe's honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark...
...words, the breakup of AT&T is just crazy enough to work, and if it does (it doesn't hurt that AT&T's baby telecoms will all have the company name at their disposal), expect imitators. Now that the markets are in the middle of a bear/bull/correction/shakeout, the glower power of investors is peaking. When a company gets too big for consumers' good, the feds start in; when a company gets too big for its own bottom line, that's when investors grab the cleaver...
...dared to do things that hardly any other Harvard professor would think of today, like glower at and castigate a student who hadn't done the requisite reading," Mitchell said...
There were days around the White House when I figured that the Eisenhower grin was worth our entire nuclear arsenal in world affairs. Some careless observers have suggested that it was a perpetual condition. Not so. There was anger, and it lurked beneath a furrowed brow. He could glower, and then often he just shifted into neutral. When he did grin, with old Army comrades or his newfound political friends, you knew more often than not that good things were...