Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian soul (though he's supposed to be Polish), and his mournful dachshund face looks scared as he explodes into frenzied wisecracking when his plans crumble. Pacino has some of Woody Allen's earnest ineptitude: raiding the cash registers, he tries to burn the receipts in a compulsive fit and causes a wastebasket fire that attracts passerbys. "I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody, ya understand?" he screams in a panic, upsetting a potted fern. Instead of getting out fast, he dawdles so long that he's soon surrounded by police...
...know it?" at exactly those moments when the other questioners are attempting to establish the circumstantial framework that will provide the answer. Joseph Montoya extracts "moral advice for the young people of this nation...from every felon who testified," and Lowell Weicker, with mind-deadening consistency explodes in a fit of moral outrage every afternoon at four o'clock, in time to dominate the evening news. Silbert and his team worried less about the strength of their case than they did about the behavior of Judge "Maximum John" Sirica, whose obvious assumption of presidential involvement threatened to blow the case...
...society could expedite its justice system to balance its award of instant notoriety with instant punishment to fit the crime, say within 30 days, there would be fewer victims to mourn...
...always been for the American League team over the National League club in the World Series but in a fit of temporary insanity, last year, I, for some unknown reason, picked the Dodgers to dump the Oakland A's. I never heard the end of that blunder from my AL friends. This year I can't help but go with Boston in seven. My heart tells me that the Reds are probably the better team, but the Red Sox have performed spectacularly in the playoffs and have come through with clutch wins all during the season. And when it comes...
...remember how Gowdy had a fit over rookie phenom Fred Lynn on the Monday nightbroadcast from Detroit on June 16. That was the night he broke his hitting streak, but it turned out to merely be a rest as he belted three homers and missed another by a foot and racked up ten RBIs the next night. Boston fans already knew how good Lynn was, but Gowdy dutifully informed the rest of the world...