Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After ayes from Texas and Tennessee, Mondale will be hard to catch...
...backs and refused to watch. When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased the dog around the campus and, failing to catch it, shot the animal dead...
Even though the narration treats Tibba's fantasies and eventual blossoming love-life ironically, it at least gives us something substantive to grab hold of. The picture of Tibba that we get from her father's musings is quite pathetic: it is not until we catch her pretending to be Virginia Woolf that we start chuckling at her. Her scenes with Piers Peverill, head boy at her uncles's boarding school, are delightful ("you were very good at kissing. Fox, but I really want to have it off with you as soon as possible"): Peverill, a charmer who gets away...
...entered my freshman year like an anxious commuter trying to catch the subway-the kind you see all the time on the Red Line, the ones who, hearing any noise from the subway tunnel-closing doors or turning wheels or the wheezing sound of rushing air-dash down the steps, sure that they will miss the train. My caller was stopping already, before he had even paid for his token, to look at the map and decide how to get where he was going...
...premise of the play does not frighten you off, perhaps the dramatic treatment will. The Curse of Kulyenchikov provides theater but no drama. All the tools are the music singing sels interesting costumes lights actors and a supporting crew. But there is little to catch the audience's emotion or to engage their sympathies. The occasional bits of humor surprising enough to make one laugh out load seem oddly out of place. One looks for glimmer5s of human feeling but in vain...