Word: freak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freak goal late in the second period, a Michael Watson insurance tally at 9:16 of the third, and 35 saves from goaltender Wade Lau propelled the Harvard hockey team to a 2-0 victory over Boston College last night at Bright Center in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs...
...days of doubt, a few hours or minutes of pain, and years and years of shame and guilt and ghosts. It is about any woman who forgets to take her pill or use her diaphragm or when her period comes; who makes a mistake or suffers a freak of chance. It is not question of stupidity so much as of ignorance, an ignorance on the parts of those around the woman an ignorance about the very stuff of the process and operation she will have to go through an ignorance on her own part about her need for compassion...
Reagan's most enjoyable moment last year may have been on the Fourth of July. Standing with friends on the Truman Balcony, he watched fireworks burst over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. "He was ecstatic," claims one pal. Says another: "He is a ceremony freak...
...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...stay a couple feet ahead of the Bogevman. She's really cute, the best screamer since Fay Wray and in a class by herself as a whiner. Donald Pleasance is back too as the flip side of the Shape, a nubby, sexless, shapeless little fanatic, certainly a speed freak, killing innocent people in pursuit of his alter-ego. He gets offed too in the big La Traviata finale. They must have had a blast making this movie...