Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Milos Forman's Taking Off with Buck Henry, Friday and Saturday, April...
Gulden's Mustard, 'Gansett, Frank Sargent tossing the first ball out on the field, the Buck Printing sign, John Kiley playing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch, Juan Beniquez, the Green Monster, Captain Carl, the Jimmy Fund, the bleacher bums... all delayed...
...freeze a moment and describe it in detail while a camera can only capture the immediacy of continuous time. The writer can add or deliberately neglect detail at just the right instant and with greater ease. In the opening scene for example, Joyce carefully describes Dedalus's cohort, Buck Mulligan, to reinforce an antagonistic mood...
...became a waitress because I needed money fast, and you don't get it in an office. My husband and I broke up and he left me with debts and three children. My baby was six months. The fast buck, your tips. The first ten-dollar bill that I got as a tip, a Viking guy gave to me. He was a very robust, terrific atheist. Made very good conversation for us, 'cause...
...witty tenderness, Coward has the amiable golfing millionaire, clad in Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being so buck-toothed that she can eat an apple through a tennis racket. But often Coward's celebrated champagne wit amounts to no more than, say, Asti Spumante-or even a frothy ginger...