Word: pulling
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...loose ball, all on a play intended to be a handoff to the running back?“Everyone thinks it was a handoff,” Berg explains. “I think it was supposed to be a bootleg, because the guard I was lined up over pulled, and generally, you don’t account for the defensive tackle when you’re running a bootleg, because you figure the handoff will take care of it.”Not exactly prophetic, but the explanation is indicative of Berg’s modest, matter-of-fact...
...least formally—than even Bob Dylan. Where he weaved stories on an intricate but predictable meter, Newsom spins an ever-evolving sequence of rhyme schemes. In “Emily,” she paints an organic tale of a dying kingdom, and the swoop and pull of the orchestration (arranged by Van Dyke Parks) makes it sound like an apocalyptic dirge from another planet. “Monkey & Bear” is more in the vein of medieval balladry, its anthropomorphized title characters undertaking an epic journey with lute-like accompaniment. “Sawdust & Diamonds...
...Stewart singled out a woman who said, “I’m really taken aback, that [Clinton] lost it.”The camera cut to Stewart, who said, “Really? Who the fuck are you?!”“When you can pull it off, that’s when pop culture is…inspirational and healthy and wonderful,” Rees says of Stewart’s outburst and its ilk.Despite this strident, demanding stance, Rees does not seem preachy in conversation. He frequently brings up a struggle to avoid...
...congratulated the writers of the report, Hoffmann himself provided a pull-quote: “I want to haggle. We will haggle. We always haggle. But I think they [the Task Force] had it right.” I happen to think so, too. The future of this curriculum will lie in its integration to real life and not its disconnection from...
Forecasting is always a dangerous habit for opinion journalists. A quick perusal of the predictions made by leading conservatives in the week before the election—“Santorum can pull it out!” “Allen will never lose!” “What backlash?”—shows just how inaccurate one can be. Yet it still seems safe to say that this year’s tailgate, a huge part of the Harvard-Yale experience, will be a major disappointment...