Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes later, Dartmouth freshman center Carly Haggard found herself all alone inside the right circle, where she flipped a backhander past Kuusisto. With 32 seconds left in the opening period, Haggard fed a backdoor pass to classmate Lydia Wheatley, who scored from point-blank range...
...prime example of sweat and storytelling is Richard Shindell, a sensitive middle-aged singer/songwriter of growing fame but not fashion sense. Shindell appeared haggard in his black t-shirt and jeans, but as he wended his way through signature songs like "Darkness, Darkness," "Reunion Hill," "Arrowhead" and "Are You Happy Now?" the crowd warmed. Under the influence of his strong strumming hand and carefully written lyrics, he evoked images ranging from a traffic jam on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a young Confederate soldier running scared. The audience received new songs like "Wisteria" with less enthusiasm. Perhaps such mini-flops could...
Juliette Binoche has one of the world's magnificent faces--delicate, intelligent, grave, questing--and this 1991 romance (just released in the States) is the most lustrous showcase for her haggard purity. The plot groans with lower-depths anomie: Michele, a painter who is half blind, camps out on Paris' Pont-Neuf with Alex, a fire eater who is more than half mad. But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever. Binoche's beauty is, naturally, the main course. One watches...
...Horace Smith, a trucker, would take his son on runs, a load of cottonseed in the back, eight-track tapes of Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride in the front. "By the time I was six," says McGraw, "I felt as if I knew the words to every album Merle Haggard ever recorded...
...Johnson), but since Ben and Jake (Dermot Mulroney) stand to share a bell-ringing inheritance, Jake and Sandra consider offing Ben, who is also idly condescending to pursue his insecure secretary (Mary-Louise Parker). When they do kinda-not-accidentally bump Ben off (a balcony), the sarcastic, haggard Sgt. Pompano (Ellen DeGeneres) turns up, with a Dudley Do-Right (and, of course, God-fearing) colleague, Billings (Ray McKinnon...