Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look in the closet for your glove. Down past the ice skates and the loose checkers, past an errant bathrobe sash and those hush puppies that you hate but have to wear to assembly, past a $100 Monopoly bill, past the "What God Looks Like?" drawings you made for Sunday School, and aaahhhh, there...
...Gilroy's dialogue is not very funny, and character development depends entirely on the acting and camera work since the script does not offer any. We learn nothing of the Hunnicutt character, for instance, except that she is sophisticated and looks fine in percale. And although the errant husband played by Rogers telephones hearty lies back to America each evening, nothing is established about his betrayed wife. Is she dull, interesting, ugly, beautiful, loyal, faithless, a drudge, a scholar, a rock guitarist? To know these things would be to know much more about her husband, and a line...
THOUGHTS ARE ERRANT during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...
...Ryan) and his role as future King. Only when the old Queen dies does he come into his own, vowing to wear the crown with dignity, which indeed he does. Like Crosbie, West gives a finely tuned and modulated performance, making altogether believable that most difficult of roles, the errant prince who turns out to be a virtuous King...
...Eagles jumped to a 1-0 advantage at 2:39 of the first stanza. B.C.'s Charlie Antetomaso picked up an errant Jim Trainor pass in the Harvard end and drilled a 20-foot slap shot past a surprised Lau. Harvard and B.C. both mustered ten shots on goal, but the Crimson could not find the range...