Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Airplane!, Naked Gun turns everything into a gag. Drebin can't park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of the rote plots and personalities that characterize endless episodes of TV cop shows...
Scoring PlayerG Gl A Pts Pen PM Allen Bourbeau 6 3 12 15 5 10 Lane MacDonald 6 8 6 14 4 8 Peter Ciavaglia 7 2 10 12 8 16 C.J. Young 7 6 5 11 4 8 Ted Donato 7 2 7 9 3 6 John Weisbrod 5 5 3 8 3 6 Ed Krayer 7 3 2 5 0 0 Tod Hartje 7 1 4 5 3 6 Nick Carone 6 2 2 4 3 6 Scott McCormack 7 0 4 4 1 2 Kevan Melrose 6 0 4 4 10 20 Ed Presz...
Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...
...Robert Maxwell is a whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell...
...Pen: The Crimson went a bit overboard with penalties last weekend--Harvard players were called 17 times, which left the Crimson short-handed for nearly two full periods of action...