Word: clammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second highest pleasure of Atlantic City is Susan Sarandon, whose fate, up to now, has been to be the best thing about oddball movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Malle's earlier Pretty Baby. Here she is Sally, a clam-bar waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle...
...when the call to the blocks for his race came. With Harvard in some danger of losing the meet that this point, coach Joe Bernal quickly gave Royal a personal escort to the starting blocks. Penalized one false start for his tardiness, the Crimson breaststroker had to remain clam at the start as each of the three Penn swimmers in turn tried to draw him off and get him to disqualify himself. Finally the race got underway, and the Leverett House junior cruised to an easy...
...goes something like this. Boy (aforementioned thoughtful hunk) meets girl (aforementioned betrothed, also brainy knock-out). Sex, love and marriage ensue. He begins spending time in an isolation tank (a dark and clam vault of salt water). Intrigued by initial effects, he wants to explore further. So he ventures (reasons unexplained) to Mexico, where he visits a tribe that drinks a special potion during ceremonies. He tries potion. "Genetic regression" ensues...
...sturdy tree can be defoliated three years in a row without losing its poise, so the grumbling heard here thus far is not of board feet lost to lumbermen. It is of seemliness outraged. The damned bugs belong down in Lowell or Peabody, or out on the Cape eating clam rolls. LIVE FREE OR DIE, as our pugnacious license plate motto recommends, but if you are a gypsy moth, do it some place else...
...Businessman Myron Block, who turned out to be in cahoots with the Unification Church. The next day, Block sold the retreat to the Moonies for $1,127,000. In addition, just two weeks ago, a Moonie-run firm paid $650,000 to buy a marina and Bob's Clam Shack, a bankrupt restaurant...