Sceptics might imagine that perhaps an excess of taxpayers' resources has been lavished on this foul deed, whose heinousness is less glaring to the callow.
Skilled hitters, adept at protecting the plate, might tend to produce a greater proportion of foul balls late in counts than weaker hitters, whose fouls would skew earlier — evidence of poor contact.
Aleksandar Kolarov, whose foul led to United's penalty kick, atoned somewhat by scoring with an inch-perfect free kick shortly after the second half began.
They have been watered down, so as not to fall foul of Congress, whose members have been intensively lobbied by the "big five" accounting firms.
18 min: Phil Neville gets booked for a slicing bite-yer-legs foul on Deco, whose Greg Louganis dive makes it look far worse than it was.
But they begin this season without their No. 1 run producer, Matt Williams (35 H.R., 142 R.B.I ., whose foul ball broke a bone in his foot last week.
In his memoir, Darling describes Brown's government as a "fairly brutal regime, and many of us fell foul of it", whose behaviour was "sometimes appalling".
The Berlin created by the director Martin Ritt and the cinematographer Oswald Morris had shiny, wet streets and cement block buildings, an image of blight whose foul darkness is interrupted solely (or so it seems) by annihilating spotlights.
After all, he's just returned from a six-month honeymoon with his new wife, Hedda, whose foul resentment, disregard for others, and contempt for intelligence, even her own, mark her as something of a savage.
In this balance between yin and yang, mangosteens supply the cool element to offset the heat of the other most-loved Southeast Asian fruit, the huge, spiky durian, whose foul aroma would stun a goat.
But that premise doesn't begin to describe the nuttiness of this play, which also features a younger daughter (Josephine Stewart) who thinks she will die if she leaves the house, an older daughter (Sarah Ireland) whose foul mouth rips through the otherwise religious household like machine-gun fire, and an aunt (Laura Desmond) who stutters and has scoliosis.
