Maybe it was the tension that dragged the occasion down but there was a good half an hour when the Argentina fans had to make their entertainment, holding up seven fingers to indulge in some malicious pleasure at what had happened to Brazil the previous night.
In central Australia body decoration and elaborate headdresses on ritual occasions, using down, blood, and ochres, were especially striking.
In targeting Palestinian militants, Israel has generally gone after those directly involved in planning and carrying out attacks, and has only on rare occasions tracked down senior figures in Hamas like Dr. Rantisi.
Worse, the great seer savored a good smoke, and on occasion chowed down on meat.
She's hip in her unhipness: towering, endearing, wacky -- barging in and, on occasion, falling down.
As gender relations evolved, the romantic comedy rarely rose to the great screwball occasion, dragged down by antediluvian stereotypes and formulas.
Though more at home in the city (she was born in an attic on Wimpole Street, London) she spent two years walking through jungle, kayaking, on one nervous occasion, down a river in Laos, or climbing up a Sumatran volcano to get to the ridge to which the tigers, threatened by logging, had retreated.
And millions of workers will be able to celebrate the big occasion after Downing Street announced it would be a public holiday.
"On three occasions he went down to the corner.
