Word: seamlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs and messages that readers tend to expect of "literature": This way to the Meaning or This story is about the Folly of Love. She can sum up the postwar history of a social class in a paragraph. She can effortlessly keep three levels of memory working in a seamless narrative. But in the end the stories are simply there-haunting, enigmatic, printed with images as sharp and durable as the edge of a new coin, relentlessly specific. "God protect us from generalizations," said Chekhov, the writer whose work Gallant's most resembles. "There are a great many opinions...
...subtlety of this work is much better appreciated on the large screen than it is on the small, and for this compilation, Jones has cut pieces from 16 Road Runners together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among them are two classic Jones-supervised shorts, What's Opera, Doc?, a send-up of Walt Disney's Fantasia in which Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having...
...irrepressible on the field as in the locker room. They swept Cincinnati out of the playoff with the same gusto, twice fighting through extra innings to beat the Reds. In the final game the Pirates crushed Cincinnati 7-1 under a barrage of hitting and Bert Blylevin's seamless pitching. It took four Reds pitchers to withstand the first four innings, as First Baseman Willie Stargell and Third Baseman Bill Madlock hit home runs and Stargell added a two-run double to settle matters. Stargell, at the vintage age of 38, hit .455 with two home runs...
...flings with snowmobiles and minibikes in the early '70s skidded in red ink - Coleman does not hesitate to take on the big boys, even in their specialties. For example, the company has made impressive headway against Thermos (coolers) and Grumman (canoes). When Coleman engineers learned how to make seamless plastic coolers and jugs, the company almost immediately challenged the industry leaders in the growing field...
These harsh realities are every bit as troubling to oilmen as to anybody else. They chafe at charges that they belong to some sort of seamless monolith, and they are bewildered by the public's suspicions. The dismay is understandable. Hardly the conspiratorial business that it is widely thought to be, the 1.8 million-employee industry operates in an intensely competitive arena...