Word: driers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forwards had some very good ideas, and on a drier field you would have seen some brilliant plays," Scalise said. "On rainy days, you score goals by gutsing it out and getting your foot on the ball at the right moment...
...sequence in a sound studio where a record producer (played by real-life Record Producer Richard Perry) flamboyantly reshapes a lame rock song into a hit; there's also a surprisingly touch ing scene in which the president of the Buddy Holly Fan Club (well acted by Moosie Drier, 13) tells Freed of his sorrow over Holly's death. Such isolated moments do not bring American Hot Wax to a crescendo, but no one can accuse Mutrux of ever losing the film's rocking beat...
Harvard's slick passing game and superior conditioning were perfectly suited to conditions at the B-School field, which is considerably larger and drier than the Crimson's usual home across the street...
Thirty-six and a half hours to... takeoff? Lindbergh made it to Paris in less time 50 years ago, when Freddie Laker was a toddler of four. What's more, Lindy did not have a toothache, as did I, and he was warmer and drier. My wait began at noon Sunday in London-style rain and drizzle outside the Laker Travel Center in Queens, New York, five miles from Kennedy Airport. Not until 12:38 a.m. Tuesday-1% hours behind schedule -did we lift off from Kennedy...
Kahn's writing appears to have lost that fire of personal reminiscence in The Boys of Summer. No longer the nostalgic chronicler, the detached Kahn is drier, less compelling. But that is not enough to kill the book; indeed, it only makes it easier for Kahn to create sharper, less biased portraits where once he had to struggle against the hazy aura of youthful hero worship...