Word: braced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Expect a slow start to the season, perhaps even--brace yourself--a loss to a very strong Columbia squad (we're serious, the Lions really are good). The later games could either turn out very well or poorly, depending on how well the untested first-year starters...
Expect a slow start to the season, perhaps even--brace yourself--a loss to a very strong Columbia squad (we're serious, the Lions really are good). The later games could either turn out very well or poorly, depending on how well the untested first-year starters...
When the era of network TV violence advisories dawns in September, some such scene will play itself out in millions of U.S. households. Warned that an upcoming program contains material unsuitable for young people, parents order their children away from the set and then brace themselves for whines and grumbling. Oddly, the exiles disappear without complaint and go off to their rooms . . . to read books. Sis, 13, picks up her copy of R.L. Stine's The Babysitter III: "His expression was blank, as blank as death. And with a quick, simple motion, he grabbed the baby's head with...
...another happy, cornball day at Stew Leonard's, "the world's largest dairy store," according to Ripley's "Believe It or Not." But where is Stew? Why isn't the 63-year-old retailing legend greeting housewives or patting kids on the head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk, Connecticut, pleaded guilty last week to what is being called the largest criminal tax case in the state's history, as well as the largest computer-driven evasion scheme in the nation. And Stew the showman may soon...
Robert Goulet, the original Lancelot, plays the Richard Burton role of the nobly cuckolded Arthur, a perennial boy transmuted into a saint. At 60 and looking it -- especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn...