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...verbal facility (he was the quickest ad-libber in the business) and openness to edgy comedians like Sahl and Bruce, Allen was no radical. He was the ideal host: a mediator, a moderator. When he wasn't talking, he actually listened to his guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger...
...sell stocks online, you want the quickest possible trades at the best possible price. Brokers promise you the sweetest deal available, but how can they guarantee that...
...Tops' "Cry Like a Baby." As the swimmers climb out of the pool after a flat-out 200 meters, Tommy Roe singing "Dizzy, my head is spinning" booms around the hall. And especially for the crowds coming out of events, meandering down the Olympic Boulevard looking for the quickest route to the buses, the tune of choice is the old Diana Ross hit "Do You Know Where You're Going...
...million viewers - it's still a fun idea, and season two will be an occasion for reminiscing. But maybe we didn't have to meet the players. Once you start juxtaposing reality with "reality," only minutes after the illusion is completed, you demystify too soon. Which is the quickest way to a quick phenomenon's death...
...amazing how clunky and unproductive an economy becomes once its people despise and subvert all its big institutions. Members of the Russian mafia don't shoot people because they like to. They shoot them because in Russia these days a bullet is the quickest way to get things accomplished. In such places, industrial consumerism just curls up and vanishes. Black markets take its place; there are no more fast-food chains, so everybody eats lunch out of the trunk...