Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...washed his clothes at college for the first time, he experienced no difficulties. However, doing laundry did not prove a simple task for another first-year Liu encountered. "This girl asked me if I had any quarters, and I saw that the clothes she had put in the dryer weren't wet," Liu recalls, "So I said, 'Uh...don't you have to wash your clothes before you dry them?' and she was kind of embarrassed when she had to clean out all this detergent powder from the dryer...
...person actually caught in a peculiar laundry situation? Jay B. Shah '98 knows the feeling. "I was kind of down on this really cold day, and I kept falling asleep in my chair while waiting for my clothes to dry," Shah describes, "I felt the dryer, and it was nice and warm, so I put my head on top of it. Then the dryer stopped. As I opened it, warm air rushed out at me and lulled me right to sleep. I must have been asleep with my head in the dryer for about fifteen minutes when I woke...
...kill the weeds. That worked beautifully, as the profusion of bean plants popped out quickly and sheltered the ground around them, crowding out the weeds. When blooms appeared, cool weather encouraged more pods, and they in turn filled with big, healthy beans. All of this was followed by dryer weather, setting the perfect stage for the final act of maturing and providing the firm footing in the fields needed for the monstrous harvest machines...
...says that for one episode he wrote, Spielberg sent him three-page memos on each draft of the script. Later Spielberg watched the rough cut and offered more suggestions. "He was amazing," says Nathan. "He would look at a scene and say, 'I think Take 2 was a little dryer.' He remembered everything from the dailies two or three weeks earlier...
This is wisdom not vouchsafed to the creators of Angels in the Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually...