Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massive hunt and she hides him away in the country. Yet unbeknownst to Penny, her lover of the past year is also a secret agent working on the case who eventually leads Scaither to Kimberly. Le Carre fans will recognize this twist as a direct crib from Smiley's People, in which George Smiley, by kindnapping his Russian rival's daughter, pulls the heartstrings that lead to his archenemy's capture...
Officials from New York City took the contest so seriously that they hand-carried their entry to Dallas in refrigerated containers normally used to ship organs for transplants. Chicago carefully drew its sample from a water crib three miles offshore in Lake Michigan. In all, seven U.S. cities and one Canadian city submitted samples of their drinking water to a tasting contest sponsored by the American Water Works Association. To the astonishment of connoisseurs, the three-judge panel turned noses up at New York's crystalline product from the Catskill Mountains and passed over Seattle's melted snow...
...even the common cold into a fatal disease. David (the family always insisted on anonymity) owed his survival to doctors who had anticipated the condition before his birth because an older brother had died of immunodeficiency. Inside a series of sterile "bubbles," David progressed from a baby in a crib to an A student who attended school by telephone; his food was sterilized and slipped in through air locks. Only briefly, in 1977, was he able to explore the world outside, thanks to a special suit presented to him by NASA. More than a million dollars in federal research grants...
...only ski at three of the six meets, due to the timing of Harvard's final exams. Then again, Harvard students, like men's cross-country captain Tim Allen '84, who started cross-country skiing at the age of four, Team to compete hard right out of the crib...
...movie begins with anxious, ferocious Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...