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...boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...
...pitcher, I can do some guesswork about what I’m going to get thrown,” Thoke said. “I think about what I’d throw, and that’s what I see. Both home runs [this weekend] were off pitches that I guessed correctly...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh - would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...gauntlet has been thrown. And I, for one, eagerly await any show willing to take up the challenge...
...foolishly simplistic, occasionally succumbing to predictable sermons on the merits of democracy and education. Uncle Boula Boula eventually finds himself on the wrong side of the political carousel and is imprisoned after a mock court case. After leading a revolt for democracy, Matapari’s father is also thrown in jail. During a rally to free his father, Matapari asks, “Why were men making other men suffer? These people who only wanted to express themselves and who were merely asking for Papa’s release? But actually, weren’t these people really asking...