Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Overall, Harvard has suffered back-to-back shutouts 10 times since 1900, but has never in that time been blanked on three consecutive weekends (except during the "informal" 1917 war-abridged season...
...around the head of the creative person sprinkling fairy dust. Well, mine's a guy with a flattop in coveralls who looks like Jack Webb and says, 'All right, you son of a bitch, time to get to work.' " The ultimate workaholic obeyed the figure in coveralls every day, except for his birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas. His work reflected more than the normal number of fears and superstitions. King was unnerved by spiders, elevators, closed-in places, the dark, sewers, funerals, the idea of being buried alive, cancer, heart attacks, the number 13, black cats and walking...
...often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood the genre") and the summer's Maximum Overdrive ("a stiff"), which King directed. But privately he derives consolation from a James M. Cain anecdote. An interviewer commiserated with...
...turn and a smooth backup in an atmosphere so tranquil and trusting, one has to look hard to see how these lessons were learned. Accused of performing miracles, drugging his horses and hypnotizing them, Ray does quite the opposite. He uses almost no prods or external devices at all -- except for his orange flag, which he shakes at the colt's head to make him turn -- no snubbing post or hobbles. He explains, "Oh, I just work with the mind...
...prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling writer plagiarizes another writer...