Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foggy lowlands, wearing their bright costumes, they made a visual feast. Now and again you would catch sight of a peach-clad boy on an Appaloosa cutting through the Chinese tallow trees, or a scarlet lad standing on his saddle, dancing on a bay. Five young women gotten up as golden harlots were included in the tableau as an easy taunting symbol for the youths: do not touch, even if you are not yourself...
Here and there it was hard to catch the drift of conversations, in particular those in Cajun French. In some phrasing and pronunciation, Cajun French has about as much in common with the French language as a claw hammer has with poetry; their English too is similarly disconnected, off the bead. For example, the unemployed might put the situation this way: "I told him for a job, he ask me no." Then again, a real live French photographer along for the ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language...
...catch up on my soap operas today, for the first time in four months," said Rebecca J Joseph...
...Postscript to the Name of the Rose emerges as a sort of printed faculty dinner conversation with Umberto Eco. The slim volume costs $8.95, about double the price of the original's paperback edition. Still, that's a bell of a lot cheaper than flying to Italy to catch Professor Eco's office hours...
...unrecognizable from one film to another. Others, usually actors from the past like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant, pour the role into themselves. Grant could be a stumble-footed comic in pictures like Bringing Up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace or an urbane romantic hero in To Catch a Thief or North by Northwest, but no one would ever have mistaken him for anyone but Cary Grant...