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“Girl pauses to dance on grave of American war hero while stealing flags from veterans’ final resting places at Arlington National Cemetery before Memorial Day.” I am outraged.

“Girl pauses to dance on grave of American war hero while stealing flags from veterans’ final resting places at Arlington National Cemetery before Memorial Day.”

I am outraged.


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Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in…

Washington’s IMDb profile needs to be updated, unless it’s implying that Denzel hasn’t been A) handsome or B) leading man material for the last dozen years.

Denzel Washington, IMDB.com

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When ARod gets the third out w/ a man on 3rd and the Yanks only down by one, I understand the reflexive instinct to moan “He’s not clutch,” or “What a choker.” This was a major league at bat though—really ballsy stuff. After a pretty poor called strike 2, ARod was painted into an 0-2 corner and facing the Royals closer Jonathan Broxton. I don’t know anything about Broxton, but the guy has got some heat. His first four pitches to ARod were 99mph, 99, 100, and 99. So Rodriguez has no wiggle room in choosing his pitches and he’s facing a guy who can and is willing to throw 100mph fastballs with the game on the line. Yes, A-Rod grounded into an easy out to end the game, but he lasted 7 more pitches after that 0-2 start and worked the count full, taking balls when they were balls. That is good stuff. No, that is great stuff. 

When ARod gets the third out w/ a man on 3rd and the Yanks only down by one, I understand the reflexive instinct to moan “He’s not clutch,” or “What a choker.” This was a major league at bat though—really ballsy stuff. After a pretty poor called strike 2, ARod was painted into an 0-2 corner and facing the Royals closer Jonathan Broxton. I don’t know anything about Broxton, but the guy has got some heat. His first four pitches to ARod were 99mph, 99, 100, and 99. So Rodriguez has no wiggle room in choosing his pitches and he’s facing a guy who can and is willing to throw 100mph fastballs with the game on the line. Yes, A-Rod grounded into an easy out to end the game, but he lasted 7 more pitches after that 0-2 start and worked the count full, taking balls when they were balls. That is good stuff. No, that is great stuff. 

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Straight Lines and Curves on Flickr. The straight vertical lines of the Curtiss-Wright (orig. Ampico) Building built in 1923 are shown up by the sloping glass curtain wall of SOM’s 1974 tower 9 West 57th. Some criticized the latter building’s curved facade for destroying the streetwall along 57th Street. Indeed, immediately below the frame of this image, the raw, unwindowed side of the Curtiss-Wright building is exposed where another building once abutted it. The net effect is that it looks like Cross & Cross’s building has been pantsed by modernism.

Straight Lines and Curves on Flickr.

The straight vertical lines of the Curtiss-Wright (orig. Ampico) Building built in 1923 are shown up by the sloping glass curtain wall of SOM’s 1974 tower 9 West 57th. Some criticized the latter building’s curved facade for destroying the streetwall along 57th Street. Indeed, immediately below the frame of this image, the raw, unwindowed side of the Curtiss-Wright building is exposed where another building once abutted it. The net effect is that it looks like Cross & Cross’s building has been pantsed by modernism.

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