Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angry bark, it is also frisky as a puppy. Nicholas and his co-stars (all veterans of the Cats cast) strut engagingly through the handsome sets. Stephen Oliver's score drapes cleverly oratorical orchestrations on his plain songs, and the whole thing moves with the brash dash of an undergraduate jape...
...preternatural interposition in the sequence of events." We'll take his word for it. In simpler terms, Americans make stadiums their churches because they trust that therein lies national virtue. Extolling baseball, Albert Spalding, the sporting-goods king, called the game "the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness; American Dash, Discipline, Determination; American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm; American Pluck, Persistency, Performance; American Spirit, Sagacity, Success; American Vim, Vigor, Vitality." Only real piety could inspire such alliteration...
...quizzical expression and a lawyerly bow-tie, Stevens captained a team of politicians and judges at a Washington contract-bridge tournament against several British parliamentarians. Stevens, a life master, plays his cards not too differently from the way he decides cases-"a little on the conservative side but with dash," said one expert observer. The Americans lost the charity contest, but Stevens did pick up more than one trick. After the players were ushered into the game room by a fife-and-drum corps, Stevens joked, "I enjoyed following the pipers and will recommend to my colleagues on the Supreme...
...Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban L.A. life...
...bear to watch), only Lewis, 22, seemed unawed by the regimen of so many heats under so much pressure. "I'm not saying it's easy," he announced at the outset, "but it's attainable. I'm ready to roll." He won the 100-meter dash in 10.06 with his familiar finishing crescendo, over Football Players Sam Graddy of Tennessee and Ron Brown, soon of the Los Angeles Rams. So the 4 X 100-meter relay team was set, too, in this likely order: Graddy leading off, Brown the second leg, Calvin Smith the third, Lewis...