Watching TV often makes me grumpy. “Dramas” with actors who look like actors (as opposed to the doctors and detectives they’re supposedly playing). Emcees applauding their own appearance on stage. Charlie Rose awestruck in the presence of Penelope Cruz, lobbing her softballs and then saying “less movies,” as if the interview were being conducted in his second language.
But reading a newspaper I almost always find something to cheer me. Sunday it was the sports section of the New York Times, which ran the headline: “Querrey Rebounds From a Scary Fall to Resume His Steady Climb.” The two opposite and single-syllabled nouns fronted by two-syllabled and nearly rhymed adjectives practically made my day.
