Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
Meanwhile, the potentially creepy loose cannons (Gervais, Thornton) promised to keep quiet, though Gervais made a horrifying joke about Katie Holmes, and Jeremy Renner made a remark about J-Lo's globes: a sort of "We Saw Your Boobs II".
Awards pundits see the Globes as a sort of dress rehearsal for Oscar contenders.
"If we look at this connected world we're entering, sports is a sort of social and cultural glue that reaches across the globe," he said.
It's not a night at the Globe, but it's a sort of performance nonetheless.
I'm one of the many who rely on it as a sort of continuous kaffeeklatsch with knowledgeable people around the globe.
The infirmities of age have particular resonance in the case of Theroux, who since his first book was published in 1967, has developed a sort of Indiana Jones-style reputation for scouring the globe in search of enlightenment.
The novelist Henry Miller put it best, in a letter to Steig that is on display at the museum: "You give a sort of geography of the emotional reactions of man, his tiny little globe built around a microscopic ego".
