Word: greys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seemed almost a pity. If Harvard had to have a fly fishing club, it's a good thing that somebody named Geordie Thomson would be the president of the thing. After all, Geordie Thomson's name sounds like a trout fly, somewhere between a Quill Gordon and a Grey Ghost. Conversations could run like...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...creaks into South Station, and in a minute its passengers have disembarked and are walking to the terminal. Inside the newstand and bakery are closed, and only a few people here and there wait in the high-ceilinged, dimly-lit hall. A wiry, haunch-backed man, wearing a plain grey uniform, whistles softly as he sweeps the floor with a lazy push of his broom...
...crescendo. "We've got a winner," the man to the right yelled. The radio reports had been right, for striding down the asphalt, flanked by police motorcycles, was Neil Cusack of East Tennessee State, eating up the last few yards. Far above, the Prudential Center loomed in the suddenly grey sky as the crowd whistled and screamed its approval...
...been far more interesting to use the same material for a film about Wills - that is, both a psychological and psychic speculation. But on the evidence at hand, such a project would have been beyond the range of almost everyone involved with Man on a Swing - firmly excepting Joel Grey...