It's got a nasty event in the middle and some very bad language.
"You just have to get back to hitting the ball hard, hitting it up the middle and laying off bad pitches.
I felt that I had to do that because I'd never read any before and I thought until I've read all 10, I'll then have an idea of what's good, what's in the middle and what's bad.
In the early 1950s, as the big studio system breathed its last, Hollywood produced a succession of classic Tinseltown fables: Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, Singin' in the Rain, The Barefoot Contessa, A Star Is Born and, right in the middle, The Bad and the Beautiful, made in 1952 and back in the cinemas to accompany a Minnelli retrospective at the NFT.
To even see a return on investment requires years on the road: buses and middle seats; dozing drivers and bad food; the hazy, record-breaking heat that Soren captures in a picture from 2003; and the weary time in dusty bullpens shown in another shot, from 2014.
My two proudest literary accomplishments of middle age are that "good" and "bad" reviews no longer affect me inordinately one way or another (I used to retire to bed with a quart of ice cream if, say, The Kansas City Star had even the slightest quibble), and I now give readings without the benefit of pharmaceuticals (which I used to use to mitigate stuttering).
But there are also a whole lot of Democrats in the middle -- seeing good things and bad about both candidates -- who are so up-in-the-air that they're waiting until the last minute (there in the voting booth) to make up their minds.
On DiMaggio's last chance to keep the streak alive in the eighth inning, he grounded a ball up the middle and it took a bad hop.
(Which is why coaches always refer to heroic quarterbacks as though they were mere middle-management executives, making "good" and "bad" decisions in the pocket).
Dividing the question items into "good" and "bad" ones in the middle of the scale (3), we have only 16 18 out of 25 (64 72%) good MQs, while all HQs are good.
"It was a second-hand day for us, I don't think the boys were listening in the team meeting just now," said the 45-year-old, before castigating a defeat with a bad "opening, middle and finish".
