If any organization should understand the futility of slogging and slugging its way to glory, it should be the Knicks, who under Riley and then Jeff Van Gundy paid dearly in the 1990's for their occasional crossing of what Frank yesterday called a gray line -- what separates "the intent to win the game to where the objective is to hurt the opponent".
The Class Three At the Races Sky 415 Conditions Stakes, with its £7,561 first prize, may not have matched the might-have-beens at Epsom, but if it provides a springboard to glory it will have been money as usefully earned as any.
Listening to "Glory," it's almost as if the year 2000 were encased in amber and Spears alone figured out how to bust it open — how to successfully reanimate a lost era in which wearing a cocked fedora and singing the phrase "Raise my roof" feels germane to the cultural moment.
"And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward, Oh whithersoever they blow... Onward to glory I go!" It is a thrilling moment in both this 1965 musical and the performance by William Michals, who plays the dual roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote splendidly, with a ringing baritone voice and a fervent manner.
As the commemorations of the Paris peace accords begin, with more champagne and seminars, instead of looking backward to past glory, it might be better to focus on today and reinforce the accords.
But if Britain is ever to return to its former glory, it'd be a good place to start.
Still others believe it is because the city has come back to a glory it long held, with the economy up, crime down and subway trains no longer covered in graffiti.
Although the team's relative youth may be part of the problem, the more daunting obstacle to greater glory, it seems, is their home base, a swamp-bound arena surrounded by highways, gas stations and retail stores.
They bought a wrecked manor house deep in the French interior 11 years ago and, without any building experience or knowledge of the French language, set about restoring it to the glory it enjoyed before the Nazis burned the place down in the second world war.
Desmond, a Harvard M.A. in art history and for a decade deputy curator of furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, has, along with his lovely wife, Olda, painstakingly restored Glin to a glory it never had in the first place.
HoloLens could allow Microsoft to regain the glory it lost to Apple in the last decade.
