Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brew tends to be of the lite variety these days. In the past the author could do a pretty fair imitation of a character in Animal House, and remembers writing Cujo under the influence of malt and hops. Then two years ago, physicians picked up symptoms of heart arrhythmia, and these days King tends to watch his solids and liquids and waistline. But he still pays very little attention to externals. Two lawn chairs on the driveway is about as much luxury as he likes to display to the neighbors. "I guard against success," he says, "because you start...
...film's action--what there is of it--begins when Jessie's mother Thelma (Anne Bancroft) returns home from an afternoon at the country fair. Bubbling over with superficial spontaneity and weighted down with multifarious milk jugs slated for immediate conversion to lamps, Thelma is blissfully unsuspecting of anything unusual, like a suicide, on the horizon. "Where are my house shoes, sugar?" she gurgles. "It's still light out sugar, why don't you come see the begonias?" And so, we are not surprised to learn that Jessie no longer ventures into the outside world...
...fact, Connery is on terra cognita since William of Baskerville has been called in to investigate the mysterious circumstances of the death of a fair, young monk. As other monks are found dead in boiling cauldrons and bath tubs, the Spanish Inquisition bandwagon arrives to look into the matter...
...with a warmth and naivete which make all of his gaffes fun to watch, and his encounter with two prostitutes is a comic stand-out. "Crocodile Dundee" surely will not be remembered as one of history's finest films, but, thanks to Paul Hogan, it proves to be a fair enough...
...fair to say that the Schlesinger-Handlinstyle of history is regarded as the classicalperiod, so to speak, but it has been very muchchallenged, especially by young historians," saidShaw Livermore '48, a professor of history at theUniversity of Michigan...