Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inability to break through the Fairfield defense and sloppy passing marred the Crimson's speed and fast breaks down the field. Hall plowed her way through the Stags defense many times but was unable to connect with the basket...
...performance on the drums. Several of the actors bring off their numbers with a flair and believability that belies the flatness of the characters they have to work with. It's unfortunate that so many of the classic songs have been so abbreviated, used only as links in the connect-the- songs script...
...somehow less densely funny, less wildly allusive than it had been before. The pieces in The Last Laugh, all of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, represent more of the same. In these last stories Perelman drifts more and more into a cosmic nostalgia which he fails to connect to anything relevant to non-octagenarian readers, Stories like And Then the Whining Schoolboy With His Satchel, in which the 15-year-old Perelmanesque character finds himself accused for plagiarizing Cooper, Kipling, Stevenson. The Riders of the Purple Sage and half a dozen other works in an autobiographical essay...
...they make your hair fall out." Captain Carol Bryant, who runs the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial home for unwed mothers in Chicago, talks of the paradoxical sophistication of the 13-or 14-year-old girl who tries to "act older, just like Brooke Shields," but does not "connect intercourse with pregnancy in any meaningful...
...Crimson attack proved it didn't need the glare at its back to connect as Carrillo took a defense-splitting Jenny Rayport feed and beat McCarthy with the game's final tally at 14:15 of the second half...