Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never mind that the hot stove league sounded more like a pot boiler with stories of the Wade Boggs extramarital affair. The opening pitch in the 51 degree chill had the atmosphere of a fall playoff and the cheers--even for Boggs--from the sellout crowd seemed to indicate that the team's dismal start was forgotten, if only...
...cold since before dawn, they were practically guaranteed seats in muchcoveted section 14. A foursome sat at a portable table and played a heated game of cards that began a couple of hours before. After downing a few bottles of peppermint schnapps, they felt no pain, nor chill, for that matter...
...after welfare checks arrive in her East Oakland, Calif., neighborhood, Minnie Thomas sees the ghosts of mothers shuffling in the winter chill. They are emaciated from crack-cocaine binges, and their hair is wrapped in rags to hide patches where clumps have fallen out. Thomas sees them glance at the children draped carelessly on their hips, then down at the sidewalk. "A woman's eyes are a window to her soul," she says. "Those eyes tell you clear as day that they've blown their check on crack...
...move, it blew into western Canada, where the temperature in many cities plunged as low as -40 degrees F. The worst snowstorm in Edmonton since 1885 brought the city to a virtual standstill. In Calgary 100,000 grade-school children were told to stay home when the wind-chill factor reached -67 degrees, a level at which exposed flesh freezes in less than a minute...
...Women on the Verge, Almodovar tried to make a mainstream farce and succeeded beyond the dreams of, say, Billy Wilder -- a Hollywood filmmaker he admires for "revealing a sordid society through the most delicious light comedies." Women doesn't meet that standard; it's more like The Big Chill with a bitter taste. But it does have a plot right out of some beloved old screwball comedy. When the disconsolate Pepa (Maura) tosses a couple dozen downers into her gazpacho cocktail, she triggers a plot device that ricochets happily through the film...