Remember back in the mid-1970s, the Red Sox put padding out there in Fenway Park because Fred Lynn kept running into walls, and he was too valuable.

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And despite padding out the action to a buttock-numbing running time with some unnecessary sentimental nonsense about Anderton's estranged family, he reminds us that few living directors can spin an escapist yarn quite as well as he does.

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Last year Deniz Baykal was forced out of the CHP leadership after a video surfaced purportedly showing him and his mistress padding about in their underpants.

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That's convenient for people who live in their headgear 40 hours a week, but it's also nice for companies where employees share helmets -- after all, it'd be nice to take out your own lining so that you're not sharing the same sweat-soaked padding with someone else.

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