Gary Carter wasn’t shy about curtain calls
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
Gary Carter was the king of the curtain call, a guy whose signature fist pump would come to define both him and the swaggering Mets of the middle to late 1980s.
Not even Carter knows how many curtain calls he gave since introducing his move 23 years ago after hitting a 10th-inning home run to give [...]
columnists Torch relay a magnet for trouble
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 19, 2008
Early one morning, around 6 a.m. it was, a solitary spectator sat in the stands of a boxing arena in Barcelona.He’d come, without fanfare and without entourage, to witness a preliminary round bout featuring a black South African flyweight the first athlete of colour to represent that country in the Olympics after decades as an [...]
Baseball Nationals walk off field of new ballpark winners
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
WASHINGTONæ˜ationals Park had quite an opening. Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking homer off Peter Moylan with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 last night in the first regular-season game at the $611 million (U.S.) stadium. With the dome of the U.S. Capitol lit up against [...]
News You can’t kill a symbol
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
Tom, you know you surprise me, says Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone to Robert Duvall’s skeptical Tom Hagen in The Godfather Part II. If anything in this life is certain %26ndash; if history has taught us anything %26ndash; it’s that you can kill anybody.Released [...]
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Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
Last week, Colchester County Court ordered Raymond Bennis and Susan Golding to pay ï¿¡1,166 in compensation to John and Sylvia McMahon, the couple who bought their home.
Mr and Mrs McMahon had offered ï¿¡285,000 for the detached house in Essex but later agreed to pay another ï¿¡10,000 for fixtures and fittings. Towards the end of the [...]