Things are getting better and better went the message.
All of our lives, we've been told, as African-Americans, that if we ran faster, jumped higher, produced better, went to the best schools, did the right things, that we would be able to get somewhere in our lives.
"Second half we did a lot better, went up 1-0, buthenen in the last few minutes, we just didn't organise enough and didn't make the right decisions in defending".
Of course, with the protean Madonna, who has reinvented herself from Material Girl to erotic icon to domestic supermom, the new, more cerebral figure of cabalist is a daring twist, and there are those who admire her ingenuity as an aging artist (though perhaps a T-shirt during a California performance on the tour that read "Kabbalists Do It Better" went a little far).
"All that was needed was farmers," Osborne writes, "for no fewer than two and a half million acres needed tending to.... Given the unwillingness of the indigenous people to surrender their lands, all the better, went the thinking, that the territory should be occupied by men who knew how to handle a rifle".
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: If some is good, more is better, went the often erroneous folk axiom.
