Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does. Though dressed in all the right clothes and given the best Dr. Watson ever, Plummer never stops being Plummer, not for a minute. Who ever heard of a sexy, sauve, passionate Sherlock Holmes, a Holmes with blow-dried hair and visible muscles, anyway? Would the real Sherlock Holmes burst into tears at the sight of a beautiful, helpless woman unjustly committed to an insane asylum? Would the real Holmes leap at the throat of an official in an attempt to kill him? Would he sweat in front of the Prime Minister? Now really, would...
...attackers burst in. A machine-gun round cut down an Iranian employee standing next to Kraus. The gunmen took the Marines' flak jackets, helmets, wallets, watches and shotguns. One attacker leveled a shotgun at Kraus. "I shuddered," he says. "I heard the blast," but that was all. Hit on his face and scalp, Kraus passed...
Throughout the first act, tight writing and capable acting hide the problems that became increasingly annoying as the show winds its way to its final burst of nervous optimism. Blocking problems, which seem minor at first, keep recurring. Too often what passes for choreography becomes simply two pairs facing each other as the featured character prances in between. Every now and then, all five actresses line up at the edge of the stage, choir-style, and start singing. They're singing quite nicely, to be sure, but the show loses its dramatic force when the players only produce the theatrical...
...eventual winner was lanky Tiger junior Andy Saltzman, who got off the blocks last but burst past Cooper coming out of the final turn to touch first in 45.55, missing the NCAA cutoff time by .04 seconds...
...College pulled through the mid-'70s by raising tuition and cutting corners, and now it has no choice but "to moderate further tuition increases through a new burst of capital," Kaufmann says. Although Harvard has not been "cavalier" about passing increased costs on to students, as Kaufmann puts it, the University has recently come to depend more and more on income from students...