Baseball is the most popular game in the US. It is played throughout
the spring and summer by schools, colleges and professional teams.
Football is the most popular game in the autumn. There are professional
football teams in all the main cities of the United States. In American
football there are eleven players in each team, as in the original
football, but the rules are different...
In our time, life is not so interesting and exciting as it can be. The
world has become a bland and safe place. Each day is like another and we
are so tired of such life. People in the past used to risk their life
by hunting animals, taking part in expeditions. We need some adrenaline
and extreme to feel that our life is going forward.
Risk sports become the fastest-growing leisure activities. More and more
people try anything from organized bungee jumping to illegally jumping
off buildings. And people never feel so alive as when they are risking
their life. The real thrill-seekers in their quest for the ultimate
sensation are thinking up more and more elaborate sports....
Fat women with flabby, double chins. Moon-faced, pop-eyed women in little flat hats. Women with starchy faces and thin vermilion lips.
Man-shy, suspicious women, shrinking into their clothes every time a wet, caressing eye alights upon them. Women soured and robbed of their souls by Christian Endeavour. Women who would probably be members of Conference if they were men...
Fat, slick, round-faced men, of the sort who haunt barber shops and a~ always having their shoes shined. Tall, gloomy, Gothic men, with eyebrow that meet over their noses and bunches of black, curly hair in their ear
Men wearing diamond solitaires, fraternal order watch chains, golden elks' heads with rubies for eyes. Men with thick, loose lips and shifty eye-Men smoking pale, spotted cigars. Men who do not know what to do with their hands when they talk to women. Honourable, upright, successful nr who seduce their stenographers and are kind to their dear old mothers....
Babies smelling of camomile tea, cologne water, wet laundry, dog soap. Babies who appear old, disillusioned and tired of life at six months. Babies that cry «Papa!» to blushing youths of nineteen or twenty at church picnics.
Fat babies whose earlobes turn out at an angle of forty-five degrees. Soft babies asleep in perambulators, the sun shining straight into their faces. Babies gnawing the tails of synthetic dogs. Babies without necks. Pale, scorbutic babies of the third and fourth generation, damned because their grandfathers and great-grandfathers read Tom Paine....
10 Ten is the year of the closest friendships — though not with the opposite sex. It is also the year when relationships with particular people or groups is strongest. The ten-year-old usually gets on well with parents but needs more time alone.
People who can't hear often learn to understand a spoken language with their eyes. They watch the mouth of the person talking and follow the movement of his lips. This is called lip-reading.
Some people think the distance between your hair and your eyebrow is a sign of how intelligent you are. The bigger your forehead is, the more intelligent you are supposed to be....
How important is your appearance? Although everyone wants to tf good-looking, are beautiful people always happier people? For example, must be a problem to be a really beautiful woman, because some men ma: be more interested in looking at you than talking to you.
They think of you as a picture rather than a person. There are also some people who think that women who are exceptionally pretty and men who are particularly handsome must be stupid. They believe that only unattractive people can intelligent....
"How old are you?" It's a simple question, and there's usually a simple answer: 'sixteen years old', 'twenty years old', 'fifty-five', etc. But if someone is described as 'young' or 'middle-aged' or 'old', then how old are they? It's difficult to know because these words have different meanings for different people....
