Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wins his wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form...
Many students actually admitted, under conditions of anonymity, that they send messages to other Harvard students, and sometimes even to people who live in the same house. Usually, these far-gone types check their mail way too often, acquire a haggard, frenzied air, and find themselves drifting through the Science Center at the most ungodly hours. Sound like fun? If you're a procrastinator who's outgrown "Cosmopolitan" or "Blades of Steel," go over and open an account. Within a few short weeks, this could...
...referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series: a haggard Texan who loves horses and leads...
Black also delivers on I'll Take Texas, a fiddle-and-steel guitar paean to his home state, and on Tuckered Out, a rollicking tribute to country stars that sneaks the names of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and others into the verses: "I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon," Black sings and slyly inserts his own name into the musical testimonial. Even as he frets about time running out, you know his time has come...
...cafe a few miles away, the waitress looks haggard. "It started at 5:30 this morning," she says. "Groups of eight to 12, 14 at one time. And they're talking they want more real estate . . . and we don't want 'em buying more...