Yesterday that earlier encounter with Mr. Russert seemed long forgotten.
Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, recalled that an early encounter with Kaine was at a charity event: "We were both in a spelling bee," hosted by the National Press Club.
Expert observers maintain that it is not simply her early encounter with Lucifer that gives Bella a popularity that some of her colleagues struggle to emulate.
That early expectation and the latter-day encounter both involve the maximum amount of happiness that the human frame can take, and both feel perfectly natural and, at the same time, unreal and impossible.
The player grows slick with viscous, fresh blood, while that from earlier encounters darkens and dries; they are drenched, clogged, and caked with blood the deeper they progress.
The academy has been remarkably slow to honor Spielberg, and certainly not for that early quartet of his – Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and ET – which rank among the greater glories of American popular cinema.
I suppose that most teenagers over the centuries have had an early encounter with alcohol that they remember, albeit hazily, for the rest of their lives.
On Thursday, however, as Spotify announced that it had made a deal with Metallica finally adding the band's music to its service, the two men publicly made peace, insisting that their earlier encounter had been "misunderstood".
Mr. Wilson once wrote, Mr. Watson said, that in their early encounters he found Mr. Watson "the most unpleasant person he'd ever seen".
Perhaps it was natural, Mr. Petersen said, that after these early encounters with Americans and their exotic land of forgiveness and plenitude, he and the other boys of Emden -- and later of Hamburg, where Mr. Petersen's family moved -- spent their summer hours watching the latest Hollywood films and playing cowboys and Indians in the wreckage of the Third Reich.
