Word: away
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson cagers travelled to Waltham, Mass., last night for a confidence-building clinic and walked away with an easy 95-80 win over the Brandeis Judges...
...films are all but indistinguishable-we come away with a memory of one or two good jokes, but people don't remember Woody Allen jokes. Because Monty Python, like anything surrealistic, depends on the realism it parodies; it takes not of the world outside and (ab)uses it. Whereas Woody operates in a vacuum, surrounding himself with flimsy satirical types who recur in each film he makes, and his humor vanishes once his personality isn't on screen...
...gets away with it because his only distinctive talent is that he tells jokes extremely well. (Though he's a dreadful actor, embarassing when he's not laughing at something or other.) This is where he's been so lucky with Diane Keaton, who's a decent enough actress, and the Diane Keaton role is the soul-unburdening one-this cranks the show up to the touch of seriousness which is needed to vindicate Woody's Indomitable Comic Spirit, so that Time Mag can duly call him America's Comic Genius...
After a controversial play during which Harvard's Karen Smith ended up sitting under the UPenn basket unconsoled by a foul call, the hoopsters lost their concentration. Several opportunities to regain the lead slipped away, and with 30 seconds left, the cagers watched helplessly as the Quakers stalled their way to the two-point...
...only thing great about Katherine Graham portrayed here is her ability to create "myth that lived on as history, ad truth"--in other words, to lie and get away with it. How does the author support such an audacious accusation? Davis disdains hard facts and instead relies on her own presumptuous brand of psychology. "Once a widow, always a widow" Davis's primer seems to say; and Graham's pruported insecurities are accordingly traced to her prolonged grief over husband Philip's suicide. She plays the party line because she craves the approval of her Presidents...