Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That beeping is pretty loud, and it's not exactly pleasant. But with a lot of concentration, I was able to think of it as musical. After a couple of weeks, I had gotten to the point where, instead of dreaming about screeching hawks, I was dreaming about ice cream trucks. Given a few more weeks, I'm sure I would have dreamt about choirs, or even singing angels...
...Marty rescued them in the earlier film -- has survived into the 21st century too. What's worse, on their voyage into the future Marty and Doc unwittingly provide him with the means to construct a dark alternate history beginning in 1955. Over its course, Biff has managed to turn pleasant little Hill Valley, Calif., into a hellish variant of Las Vegas, with himself as its czar. He has even contrived to make Marty's mother a widow and marry her, turning her into an alcoholic and Marty into an abused stepson...
Rounding out the strokes for the Crimson was perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the the evening in the 200 breaststroke. Australian Scott Hoy, returning from a two-year layoff, set a meet record, completing the race...
...working on squeazing [sic] out a very bizarre character here," Ehrman wrote. "He is detested by just about everyone, has never received any decent supervision and I am the one who gets to deal with it head on. Not a pleasant situation--I really feel sorry for the guy. But he is horrible...
...Verdict. He made a deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...