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...young boy, Staphs father and brother would take him out to a local field and play pick-up games. He was too little to actually compete, but he didnt mind playing all-time center and snapping the ball to his life-long role models...
...Hooker's most significant accomplishments was that he took an essentially rural form of music, Delta blues, and made it tough enough for the city, strong enough to support all the rock and roll that would come after it. Hooker once said "the blues is a pick-up. It's not a letdown." Although he sang sad songs like "Hobo Blues" and "My First Wife Left Me" and "It Serves Me Right (To Suffer)", Hooker was searching for catharsis, not pathos; he was looking to chase pain away, not to simply revel in it. "What do music do? It keeps...
...Bush has been trying to warm up to the other side but his pick-up lines haven't been working. After a long cold period, he dispatched senior White House aide Josh Bolton to meet with McCain and invited all the Senate sponsors to a White House meeting last week. But it was mostly for appearances. The Bolton- McCain huddle lasted only about 15 minutes and the White House meeting "was a dog-and-pony show," admits a top Senate GOP staffer...
...because pick-up lines used by men in bars rarely work b) to encourage bottle returns c) because Jewel's verse is more tolerable when you're drunk d) to spur interest in poetry...
...originality they made up for in confidence and a well-developed sense of how to turn a scene over to Beale without actually creating a one-man show. Now, with the cast out of its element, it has become increasingly clear that they resemble nothing more than a pick-up team whose only real purpose is to facilitate a single commanding performance. There are exceptions. Paul Bazely as Guildenstern shows a remarkable depth of character, portraying a young man torn between duty to the reigning monarch and a friendship he truly holds dear. Similarly, Simon Day as Horatio does...