Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fit of good humor, Bok told his audience, "If an orangutan was elected president of the United States and asked the Harvard Faculty to advise him, there is no doubt that we would." The Republicans laughed...
...this doesn't mean that Crouse's book is fit reading only for those newspaper freaks who must know where H.L. Mencken and Russell Baker went to high school. Crouse has a good angle on history. His behind-the-scenes view of McGovern's defeat gives a key to some of the man's personal qualities--an embarrassing candor and an inability to remain detached or be "political"--that figured in his failure...
...screen comedian. He only goes seriously wrong when there's not enough of him, like his not directing Play It Again, Sam, or his absence from some of the skits in Everything... But in Sleeper he's everywhere, directing, staring (Diane Keaton is there, too, but she can't fit into what is designed to be a one-man show) and co-authoring (with Marshal Brickman), generally leaving his stamp all over this terrifically funny film. Woody Alley may be staging everything a little too perfectly here, but he isn't going to lose...
...admired like the sexy Cover girl--all for love, of course. And she found out how the biggest need always boiled down to pleasing men, a need so embedded in her personality that she had spent a life smoothing over the sticky edges of her personality that didn't fit what men liked. She was afraid to grow up, afraid to write, afraid to fly. Then analysis came along and said to her, "Recognize the need. Take care of it, allow for it. But no need for it to run your life any longer. Let yourself become a woman...
Lacking a center, Mitchell has searched in vain for a third forward to fit into his fast-break, man-to-man game plan. Kerry Walker, who averaged 17 points per game as a sophomore and broke B.U. scoring records as a freshman, gives Mitchell offensive punch, but little of the defensive strength he needs. Junior Bill McKay saw action against UMass, but was tormented by turnovers...