Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stars. I told them of my improvisational philosophy, and they got a little bugged when they saw it happening." Sutherland says, "I never understood exactly what he wanted." They watched Altman make some improvements, like building Hot Lips' part up from a nine-line bit, but the master stroke of adding the loudspeaker as a character came only in Altman's post-production work...
...days later, Ford was hospitalized for a mild stroke, but he completely recovered after a few weeks...
...rowing team with only a passing interest in political agitation. Radical students call for a strike against the university's plan to put up an ROTC headquarters on a playground, while James and his teammates scull on the river. Two chants ring in our hero's ears: "Stroke!" and "Strike!", surely a more suitable title for this simpleminded exercise. James chooses the latter. It is never explained why, exactly, although it seems to have something to do with the nubile presence of Linda (Kim Darby), with whom, as James announces proudly, "I slept last night in the president...
...very tempting to give one stroke of the pen for each of the millions of people that America has killed or starved or maimed, or the thousands of rivers that it has polluted, and reduce it all to a table or graph and then say, "Look...
...came down to the fact that we knew that no crew can row a 48 down the course that early in the season without paying for it later in the race," Evan feels. When Penn was ahead, it wouldn't hurt them to jump the stroke. When it was bow-to-bow, it was fatal...