Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rowdy and rousing and raunchily uproarious, especially in a song about a gala party where saints and sinners mingle ("Richard III is comparing his hump with Quasimodo's"). The sole performer, as both Markham and his demonic adversary, is Dennis Locorriere, erstwhile singer-songwriter of the pop group Dr. Hook. His energy is boundless, his timing flawless, his depravity seemingly bottomless in this bewitching romp...
...Magic hit the hook in '87. Jordan scored 63. Jeff Malone hit that Fantastic shot running out of bounds at the buzzer. D.J. at the buzzer in Game Four, '85. Larry raised his arms in victory before the ball went through to win the Three-Point Contest...
...Montana to John Taylor. L.T. crunched Theismann's leg. Dorsett went 99 yards. Fridge on fourth-and-one. Landeta missed the punt. Kellen Winslow and Dan Fouts were better than Miami and their hook-and-ladder play...
...makes it seem as if people are screwing onthe dance floor left and right, which is totallyridiculous," said Scott D. Beck '88-'90. "Surethere's some mistletoe, and some people 'hook up,'but it's harmless fun. It's a good time with maybea little sexual activity going on--there's nothingwrong with that...
...this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite...