Word: fasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...then The Game was over. It got dark fast. I forgot where I was supposed to meet the bus. It was cold and I had no gloves. I was hungry, too, but there were no concessions stands, just old folks wearing Yale blue next to rows and rows of cars with oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef flowing out the back. But whenever I approached, they'd look at me dubiously. A guy would say, "May I help you?" and I'd say, "No, just looking, thanks." Oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef. And I couldn...
...movies, The Running Man is fundamentally an action film, Schwarzenegger and company against a host of well-equipped and deadly enemies. Everyone knows the hero can't die, but director Paul Michael Glaser does a terrific job of making you wonder how Richards will keep escaping. The action is fast and engaging, with the right amount of gore to satisfy the bloodthirsty and make the squeamish turn away, if only for a moment...
...Buzzy is a great receiver," Yohe says. "He's not blazing fast, he doesn't have the quickness to run by people, but he's well-conditioned. He runs the defense well. He adjusts if he sees [the play is] not going to be there...
After some adolescent wandering and college (William and Mary), Close moved to New York City and began acting with the Phoenix Theater Company. There she became fast friends with Actress Mary Beth Hurt, who recalls that Close's patrician reserve hid a "wild and playful" streak. Close's break was in the Broadway production of Barnum, which led to her being cast in Garp. One day she shocked the cast and crew after the production bogged down over a delicate nude scene in the boys' locker room. She suddenly stripped off her character's nurse uniform and streaked the cast...
...from outer space" -- a reference to the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. There have been recent indications, however, that the Soviets might soften their die-hard opposition to space-based defenses in favor of gaining some predictability about how and when such systems might be deployed. Having held fast on that issue last month while Gorbachev first refused, then agreed to set a summit date, the Reagan Administration just may find a new practicality in the Kremlin. After all, if the Soviets are becoming less self-conscious about their past, they might also be more flexible about the future...