Word: apts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apt description of what happened to the Crimson last season: a few missed snaps, a close loss and the snowball started rolling...
...apt description of what happened to the Crimson last season: a few missed snaps, a close loss, and the snowball started rolling...
...sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases and puts it all down in writing, for the lawyers. Precoital tristesse, in short. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? O.K. But remember that in 1989, summer days are apt to be murky with smog, uncomfortably hot thanks to the greenhouse effect and filled with lo-cal sequels...
Besides, "the course of true love never did run smooth," as Lysander observes, and in seeing the muddle of our own times we are apt to overlook the fact that it was ever so. Faithlessness was hardly patented by Cressida, and even in Shakespeare's day, the theaters were full of Roman numerals. Sequels follow sequels. Romeo, let us not forget, was a heartstrong adolescent unable to imagine any girl save Rosaline -- until he set eyes on Juliet; and Juliet was a 13-year-old upstart who roundly abused both her murdering Romeo and her devoted nurse. Shakespeare himself addresses...
This is obviously not Lassie Come Home; it is the odd couple as crime busters. Turner is a small-town detective, an apt occupation for a man of his temperament. He has placed Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local...