It's also robbed some of the specialness of actual dates.
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"I think that has a certain specialness to it." psimissyou.
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The specialness of all that is not lost on me.
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Does it change your perspective on the specialness of humans?
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Mr. Mlodinow promotes the idea that psychiatric medications dull people's specialness.
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A way to conceive of this specialness is through civil religion.
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"The specialness of the one can be really meaningful," he said.
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"Our specialness is that we rather buck the trend," he said.
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"It highlights the specialness of these areas," she said about the technology.
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But isn't the whole attraction of Trump supposed to be his specialness?
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It fulfills authentic needs — for meaningfulness, for a sense of structure — by providing adherents with a sense of their own "specialness" in a mythic narrative created for them, a specialness further intensified by the highly eroticized thrill of transgression.
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"The specialness would go out of it" if she were paid, she says.
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These are stories about the patriarchy letting women succeed because of their specialness.
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Repo "specialness" refers to scarcity of 10-year notes for short-term funding.
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"We've lost the excitement and the specialness of a physical idea," he said.
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"Can't explain the profound specialness of some people," Alex Guarnaschelli said on Instagram.
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Obviously, Bron, we've drawn off his specialness, especially this late in his career.
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If there's any specialness in this clunker, it's when the movie emulates Anastasia's humanity.
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That specialness doesn't really exist anymore in the way content is provided and distributed.
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Seven decades later Galileo Galilei provided more direct proof of Earth's lack of specialness.
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It was quite a cycle: My worry made me special, my specialness made me worried.
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There's just more time that needs to be spent to understand the specialness of that.
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"Hudson turns 'Dreamgirls' into an event, giving it an aura of significance and specialness," SFGate wrote.
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I'd love if Planescape became less unique, even if it lost a little of its specialness.
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Hawley's series isn't the first superhero tale to connect m mental illness to specialness or superpowers.
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" On how it affected her: "It took away a lot of the specialness of interactions with men.
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But on a consumer level, the specialness of the non-waiter has lately started to seem fraudulent.
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A cake is how we mark the rareness, the specialness, of time off in one another's company.
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His specialness, though, obscures what some suggest is the greatest injustice of college sports' policy of amateurism.
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Belichick's specialness comes from being a dude who, quite simply, has almost entirely bought into the bullshit.
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He said: "The take-home message for me is that this study punctures the specialness of mammals."[Science]
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If somebody does it tomorrow to win the U.S. Open by one, that's the specialness of my round.
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But stripping Rocky Horror of its specialness is just about the only thing Fox's adaptation commits to without reservation.
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Its tone — knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity — elevates it to its own kind of specialness.
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It's clear that this is a special place, and that specialness, like its fiercely environmentally-conscious principles, is worth sharing.
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We can learn to lose our belief in specialness, grieve together, and create ceremonies to honor our pain and grief.
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"Neuroscientists are objecting to the 'devaluing' of the specialness of the brain," said Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University.
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The specialness for Verizon is their customers are gonna get access to content and services that we can bring them.
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If only there were an enormous secret lurking just out of sight, providing meaning and conveying specialness upon the knower.
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But they also seem to be missing the sense of personality and specialness apparent in the work of ancient Japanese bladesmiths.
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There was music, there was dancing, and it's wonderful to see when your child is old enough to recognize their specialness.
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We were remembering our own childhoods and the specialness of birthdays, and celebrating the eccentricity of family life and its rituals.
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We who not only perpetuate this culture but also espouse it as essential to our "creative" specialness should all be ashamed.
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We have taken that difference and turned it inward, imagining that our specialness was under assault from those beyond our shores.
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So she has to be at the center of her own resistance movement, because that is where her specialness can really shine.
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There's beauty and humor and specialness in that battle, and no show is better at giving voice to it than "Better Things."
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There's very little high-quality evidence, and no comparable mammalian example, to argue for the specialness of cow's milk after this period.
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NORMCORE sarcastically conflates "normal" and "hard-core" to mean adopting a "normal" and nondescript style of dressing to better express your specialness.
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"The connections, the contacts for your next movie, are so available, and you're all together in the specialness of it," Ms. Allain said.
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This exploded view of a record player plays down the specialness of its sound and breaks down what's inside and how it works.
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" She adds, "The sacredness and specialness that we felt in the room that day when she joined the world was unlike anything else.
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It's no surprise that AI elicits a lot of questions about our "specialness" as humans…but perhaps we're focusing on the wrong argument.
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One might think this would spell doom for the old-fashioned letter writing industry, but some saw an opportunity to market its specialness.
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Uncluttered design felt fresh and new a few years ago, but there will come a point when it no longer has the same specialness.
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How do you actively work to make sure that The Wing is a diverse and inclusive club, while still maintaining its exclusivity or "specialness"?
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"There is concern over what it means to be a person using artificial intelligence, whether that affects our specialness or not," said Dr Singler.
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He'd wondered if these patterns were unique to him, evidence of some specialness or damage, or if they were universal, if everyone saw them.
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However true it may be, it doesn't hold a candle to the fact that this one is imbued with an unreplicable aura of specialness.
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"There was so much specialness around male athletes, and perhaps I identified more with the perceived sense of freedom that they had," she said.
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And the specialness of that cheese is derived in part from the fungus that naturally evolves into mold in cheese caves across northern France.
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Some analysts blamed the 10-year repo specialness on the Treasury Department's move to pare the size of this reopening by $1 billion this month.
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"[Philo's] specialness lies in synthesizing how women want to dress with how they actually live their lives," wrote Whitney Vargas for T Magazine in 2014.
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Every year during the Stanley Cup playoffs, all we hear about is the specialness and the sanctity of the traditional post-series handshake near center ice.
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That's why it's believable, here at the end of season three, that Serena might have decided to abandon her belief in her specialness and betray Fred.
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They have an automatic yet meditative quality and the unconscious physical energy of handwriting, attesting not just to the specialness of touch but to its inevitability.
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If there's something you do for love instead of money and you have the bandwidth, offer it as a gift to those who'll appreciate its specialness.
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Polaroid Swing, an app that captures one-second snap shots, is set to launch a hardware product that promises to recapture the "specialness" of the traditional camera.
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Either be smothered in icky-pink specialness to the point where they point-blank refuse to take on the outside world's verdict that they're just a person.
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"We do events around the world, but in my view, nothing touches on the specialness of Augusta," said Doug Jackson, president of Coca-Cola's global energy business.
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Despite the emphasis on the land — its particular specialness and beauty — the devoted of Llamalo come to a radical conclusion: It's not about the land at all.
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But it's what our human ancestors were capable of back then too, and scientists have always considered such behavioral flexibility and complexity as signs of our specialness.
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But the reasons we love it won't hold up to instant availability, affordability, the comforts of home and the eroding "specialness" of a commodity that's no longer scarce.
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Or the promoters who figure that, if you can get any old robot with an iTunes account to play whatever's charting on the radio, why pay for specialness?
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The most shocking aspect of Mr. Coates's wording here is the extent to which it mirrors ideas of race — specifically the specialness of whiteness — that white supremacist thinkers cherish.
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Any futile status pursuit smacks a bit of Dr. Seuss's Sneetches, those creatures that tried to create specialness among their ranks by furiously adding or removing stars from their bellies.
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Yet whether viewed from within or without, left or right, the Germans could be seen through such a lens to possess some collective essence — a specialness — capable of explaining everything.
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The first clue to the specialness of Wolfe's "painted sculptures" (his words) is that they hang on the wall, inviting scrutiny and savoring that usually reveal signs of artifice and process.
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I mean, being one of the most famous (and infamous) people in the world means that everyday bears some air of specialness, but today, February 9, 2017, is just really friggin special.
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It has also confirmed for me that intimacy requires time spent one on one, and the specialness of that maintains trust and closeness between not only the adults, but you and your children.
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But The Handmaid's Tale does not seem to know how to be about June without also being about June's specialness, and I have already discussed at some lengths my problems with that angle.
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"Bing's attempt to eradicate a sense of specialness and privilege in his sons," as Giddins terms it, was undercut by the fact that they were Hollywood kids, trotted out as needed for show.
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"Holidays are a time to connect with those closest to you, and when you're on a trip, there can be a tendency to lose sight of the specialness of the occasion," she said.
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The two reminisce in song, unearthing a whimsical duet they composed together when Eliza was 9, with lyrics that reference her only-child specialness and the time she fell off the monkey bars.
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By conflating investment fashion with, effectively, groceries, you undermine its claims of specialness, effort and creative muscle — all the criteria on which it is built and which justify, in many ways, its price.
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What Benjamin said contained the "aura" — the mark of individuality and specialness only an original, handmade work can imbue — Bolton likened to haute couture, whilst assembly-line fashion (as reproductions of art) lacks that aura.
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"The process takes time, care and patience, ensuring we deliver a distinct experience that stays true to the specialness of the coffee while imparting the complementary, distinguished flavor of the oak-aged barrel," Thompson said.
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That night, when Donald and I finally returned to the White House, he turned to me and asked if, as a way to mark the specialness of the occasion, I would like to make love.
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Usually on an unconscious level, to gain for ourselves attention and admiration from strangers — generally as anonymous stand-ins for parents who we think in one way or another failed to adequately recognize our specialness.
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For young people, I suspect, the idea of specialness looks like a reward but mostly functions as punishment, bestowing on us the idea that there is no good way of existing other than constantly generating returns.
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His Twitter recklessly, ruthlessly epitomizes that familiar stereotype of the generation we share: He believes wholeheartedly in his own specialness, even as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with a world that is poorly equipped to notice it.
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"David is a staggering editorial talent, with tremendous leadership abilities and deep experience in the specialness of this place," Pam Wasserstein, CEO of New York Media, said in an internal memo announcing the move on Wednesday.
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While low ratings seem rare, many people, smugly sure of their pet's specialness, have been gutted after submitting their reptiles to Scout and Elyse—they don't always take the seemingly arbitrary selection and rating system well.
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But on some fundamental level, Dragon's Dogma speaks to, and depends on, a deeply conspiratorial image of the world as much as it does our normal ideas about fantasy and the specialness of Chosen One player characters.
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Patrick Grant, a designer at Savile Row tailors Norton and Sons in London, said brands should occupy a rarefied world of luxury and specialness and "step away from the noise and spam of Instagram bloggers and floggers".
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The film, in asserting that the facts of life must be the facts of life, and in attributing Wonder Woman's specialness to Zeus' power as a god, dismisses Marston's politics in order to tell a more conventional story.
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The man who is always searching for proof of his own specialness in order to quiet his feelings of inadequacy must deny the attention of a woman he believes will prove that he is truly, after all, special.
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A few right-wing cable-news voices are also heard taking shots at Mister Rogers's belief in the specialness of everyone, which they take as wishy-washy, character-sapping progressivism rather than a straightforward gloss on basic Christian teaching.
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To raise revenue and to try to maintain cultural relevance, nearly every print publication now produces a slate of events each year (like Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit, held since 217), each detracting from the specialness of the next.
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Roderic Wye, associate fellow of the Asia program at Chatham House, told CNBC via telephone that such an outcome perpetuates the "fear that (Hong Kong) would lose its specialness," particularly with regards to its civil liberties and rule of law.
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If June is going to be a resistance leader, that's the kind of resistance I want to see: one based not in June's unique specialness, but in class solidarity, in groups of people working together to overcome an oppressive state.
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While not all of these characters were artists themselves, they all possessed the Byronic idea of specialness or genius — they were men somehow set apart from normal society, and normal society's rules, by their intelligence, creativity, and powers of observation.
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"The process takes time, care and patience, ensuring we deliver a distinct experience that stays true to the specialness of the coffee while imparting the complementary, distinguished flavor of the oak-aged barrel," said Starbucks beverage R&D team member Duane Thompson.
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Prior to the 10-year auction, analysts had expected solid demand for the latest 10-year debt supply because of "specialness" in the repurchase agreement (repo) market and the biggest spike in "fails" of these repos in at least a year this week.
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But the thing is, once you take a story about surviving under the patriarchy — which Handmaid's Tale ostensibly is — and turn it into a story about a singularly special heroine transcending the patriarchy through sheer force of her specialness, then that story stops being subversive.
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" Ms. Miller, who has mentored Greta Gerwig (and cast her in 2015's "Maggie's Plan") and other women who want to be directors, notes about women in Hollywood: "We have to let go of that specialness, of the privilege of being the only woman.
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What's great about Incredibles is how it balances the two sides of its personality, while also allowing for a surprisingly meaty dive into ideas about what it means to be "special" and making room for other people to have their own sense of specialness.
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But even that specialness doesn't belong to Ally, because within that framing, a woman's "stardom" is defined not by anything she does, but by the fact that a man recognized her — by the magical effect she has upon the man who looks at and hears her.
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It's the same for Brazilian jiu-jitsu or any other combative sport: fight sports are uniquely hard, physical pastimes that place greater demands on your threshold for physical suffering and personal sacrifice the further you go in them, and their specialness owes to so many people shrinking away.
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That's my theory about why my dad has been visiting the same diner for the past 30 years, even though he knows the food is nothing special: He always runs into his friends there, and he likes the nothing-specialness because he knows it keeps the yuppies out.
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While the astounding intricacies of fetal development have only been functionally understood for a few decades, the specialness of pregnancy is hardwired into humanity's cultural imagination, not-so-subtly signaling to pregnant women, As you carry the future of our species within your womb, don't fuck this up.
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Rory becomes a stereotype — a prematurely talented wunderkind whose belief in her own extra-specialness failed to prepare her for the harsh reality of real work in the real world; who ends up moving back home and relying, if only temporarily, on her harder-working parent for support.
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"What we've tried to focus on is how do you bring the kind of specialness of the internet into a core product, something which is aspirational, people actually want to see, no wires, no kind of weird glasses, it has to feel natural but with technology embedded in a very seamless way," he added.
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Just as another chapter is dedicated mainly to the false beliefs we harbor about our own specialness (with the corresponding rockslide of research showing as much), and another to confirmation biases, and another to our deep desire to safeguard our reputations, and on it goes, until the reader is buried and disoriented, hardly knowing which way is up.
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The rationale behind the rule was never quite clear; somehow it was thought to distract from the specialness of the World Series if the players could be seen in Poughkeepsie soon after, or perhaps it damaged the brand when a barnstorming team advertised itself as "The World Champion 19220 Cleveland Indians," and rolled out Doc Johnston and Harry Lunte instead of Tris Speaker and Bill Wambsganss.
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Finally, in the episode we see that the one who's very likely the most lost in the illusion — or perhaps delusion — of personal specialness that fame engenders is the defendant himself, O.J. Simpson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who's lived most of his adult life as a figure of adulation whose celebrity and personal charisma have obtained things most people can only dream of — and frequently excused behavior that others would've been called out on.
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Being a Newark Jew in a largely working-class city where political leverage accrued through ethnic pressure, where both historical fact and folkloric superstition sustained a steady undercurrent of xenophobic antipathy in each ethnic precinct, where the apportionment of jobs and vocations often divided along religious and racial lines—all this contributed enormously to a child's self-definition, his sense of specialness, and his way of thinking about his discrete community in the local scheme of things.
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