Fireman Ed, the Jets superfan whose caffeinated mien and grimacing face appealed to many an unoriginal television producer, has decided to retire, bidding farewell to a life of leading cheers and screaming from atop fans' shoulders.
In the 1990s Sanrio began marketing Hello Kitty products to adult women as "retro" objects: handbags and makeup compacts sporting the iconic character's face appealed to the senses of both nostalgia and irony, coinciding with the rise of Japanese kawaii, or "cuteness," culture.
A planned visit to the Capitol by President Obama was postponed until Saturday so that a face-to-face appeal would have greater impact on wavering lawmakers just before the vote.
His investigation, which has included a face-to-face appeal to Cardinal John J. O'Connor and a clandestine meeting with a shadowy informer, has at times seemed more suited to an espionage novel than the workaday life of a parish priest from New Jersey.
That was part of Abbey's prickly charm, his Janus-faced appeal.
In the ruling now facing appeal, Wolf dismissed the DOC's arguments as "pretext" and said that officials at the prison went out of their way to deny services to Kosilek.
The case still faces appeals in state courts by Brown & Williamson and the four other largest cigarette companies.
Day and night he fielded text messages, calls, and face-to-face appeals from locals filled with frustration and disappointment at the disaster response.
Standard TV commercials are threatened by dwindling broadcast audiences and the instant ad-zapping of digital video recorders; customers are tired of in-your-face appeals.
The Cook controversy is just one of a number of simmering disputes: the sports of diving and fencing are also facing appeals from aggrieved athletes, and more discontent is expected as the remaining 300 slots on Team GB are filled.
