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Unfortunately, the same draws that make it a walkable gawk for touristas of every stripe makes it a frustrating exercise in perambulation for locals — kind of like New York’s Times Square with balmier weather.

Grossman added that the notion that the state would decide whether one's marriage was bad enough to dissolve doesn't square with "our feelings about and control over the arc of our lives. It would be really hard for people to even understand what that would be like now."

How, I wondered, did that square with someone who was running what seemed like a good old inclusive and boisterous New York City event?

Clement responded that “that’s hard to square with the record here.”

Wrote Pat Calabria in Newsday after Rose was banished, “Behind the gleaming All-America smile and the irrepressible charm, Pete Rose has spent much of his career putting out one brushfire after another. Until now, he always managed to escape unharmed. . . . Rose was a remarkable hitter and enormously popular . . . his face was on the front of a Wheaties box. But the public image never did square with the private reality.”