"Li bruceremo!" "We will burn you!" Pithy, as mottoes go, direct and to the point. And for the immigrant Italian communities in New York City during the first half of the recent century, a terrifying one as well.
The sport of Thoroughbred racing just can't get out of its own way. In the 2008 edition of the Run for the Roses, Eight Belles broke down while galloping out after finishing second to Big Brown. Seconds later, the brave filly was euthanized while she lay helpless on the track.
The Holiday Lounge sits on the north side of St. Mark's Place near the corner of First Avenue in New York's East Village, under a maroon awning and down a few wide concrete steps from the sidewalk. It is a hardcore old man bar and, for as long as anyone can remember, it's been run by a hardcore old man from the Ukraine named Stefan.
She is a woman. She is a white woman. She is a manly white woman. In her desperate quest for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign ramped up gender, race and machismo as the factors she wants the Democrats to consider in selecting the party's nominee.
What if I saw to it that the name cards were distributed incorrectly, some given to the wrong individuals, some out of alphabetical order, some with amusing made-up names the dean might automatically read?
Imagine that your brain is fried and you've been miniaturized. Then somebody sticks you inside a pinball game. Are you picturing it? OK, that's "Speed Racer," a pointless, relentlessly noisy, thoroughly uninteresting mess from the men who gave us the "Matrix" films, the Wachowski brothers, Larry and Andy.
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