Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted, COCA's underlying intention of calling our attention to the atrocities of the past week is, by itself, noble. No one with sympathy for the people of El Salvador can justify what happened. Why, then, was I so quick to throw out the memo? And why do I feel so compelled to denounce COCA's strategy...
...stylized bitchiness of Harling's writing requires a stage setting. Failing that, it requires a director willing to let his actors throw good lines away or overlap them in ways that work in the movie's naturalistic context. But Herbert Ross insists on theatricality. His editing even provides awkward little pauses for the audience to fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front...
Runnerup: "If we control the line like we did today, I don't think we'll ever pass again."--Harvard football quarterback Tim Perry after engineering a 24-15 upset of Penn Saturday at the Stadium. Perry was forced to throw only seven passes in the game as the Crimson rushed for 318 yards...
...Harvard offense, led by Reidy's 118 yards and two touchdowns, churns out 348 rushing yards. Perry has to throw only seven passes. The Quakers quake...
...Moty was never happier than when he was in the middle of a debate, where he could throw his weight behind things he believed in," Levisohn said...