In the Times, J. Wertham studied Brittney Greiner's technique and praised “the way she gently lofted the ball over the rim and into the net, like returning a lost child to its parents.” (Ann Davenport, Chile, Olumue, Kate Kavanaugh, Concord, Mass.) In a subsequent profile of actress Jean Smart, J distilled Smart's character on the show “Hacks” as follows: A man who got tired of being cut and turned into a knife. ” (Karen Kasnets of Bedminster, New Jersey and Donald Journey of Amesbury, Massachusetts)
Reviewing a recent Rolling Stones concert, Ed Masley of the Arizona Republic wrote that Mick Jagger's physicality “reminisces Mikhail Baryshnikov raised in a family of overcaffeinated roosters.” I wrote. (Paul Welch of Phoenix, Dan Olson of Spokane, Washington, etc.)
In the Guardian, Jay Rayner visited Paris's new restaurant Public House and had a lobster pie that tasted awfully light of lobster. This is Finding Nemo, only without the redeeming part. ” (Lawrence Mate, Champaign, Illinois; Todd Rowe, Simpsonville, Kentucky)
And Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe marveled at how sluggish and unlucky some players were on the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team that lost in overtime to the Boston Bruins. As the play unfolded, he was buttoned up so tightly at the goal line that three Eastern Clothing tailors waited until dawn to remove him from the ice, throw him into a suit bag, and drag him to the team bus. There is also. ” (Dan Conti, Concord, Massachusetts)
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