"A Night With George" is billed as "a working-class Belfast woman's improbable connection" with Mr. Clooney, the handsome, funny, smart and clearly unattainable movie star.
The improbable connection gave Stanford, a 41-point underdog, a 24-23 victoverover No. 2 Southern California and provided an indelible moment.
Evolutionary biologist Kate Buchanan of the University of Stirling in Scotland observed the improbable connection in the sedge warbler, a bird that winters in Africa then flies north to England in April to breed.
They invite confessions, create improbable connections between… Growing up is hard work.
"I would define humour, as we know it, as seeing improbable connections in the upper mind," says psychologist Jaak Panksepp.
They invite confessions, create improbable connections between strangers, and offer insight into the unvarnished thoughts of the seventeen-to-twenty-four-year-old American female; of active-duty military personnel; of Mormons.
But this only makes it more obvious, once the real Dickens shows up, that the novel was written in monthly installments over two years, with all the choppiness, repetition, dead-end characters and improbable connections that entails.
In the fourth hour, John McEnroe materializes to point out the improbable connections between art and tennis, his image flip-flopping with aggressive graphics by Barbara Kruger on the theme of "Consumption".
As the circumstances surrounding it emerged, it became clear the Milanese banker was at the centre of a web of sensationally improbable connections linking his bank, the Banco Ambrosiano, not just to Cosa Nostra, but also to the Vatican's financial arm, the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR; offshore tax havens; cold war politics; and an influential rogue Masonic lodge, known as P2.
And eventually "Skippy Dies" will make a wild leap from Halloween's youthful chaos to that of a World War I battlefield, however improbable the connection may seem.
Perlman shares Dickens's sympathy for the put-upon and the disenfranchised, and his fondness for intricate multiplotting — as well as his tendentious planting of improbable hidden connections among his people, giving us to understand that the lowly and the high and mighty are inextricably interdependent.
