Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When he came to the Pudding, we were surprised, he was thought of as a Loeb type," says president of Pudding Theatricals W. Nicholas Weir '87. "But when he got involved in the Pudding he fit in well and really enjoyed it. Then when he went on to writing scripts, he captured the essence of the Pudding show, understanding Pudding convention and idiom and pushing the formula to its limits...
Israel, subbing for the injured Chris North, scored a total of 14 points on the two penalty kicks and four two-point conversions. "He fit his boots very well," Coach Martyn Kingston said of Israel's performance...
...developments may also drastically change the cassette market. Manufacturers may soon introduce a digital cassette tape which would utilize technology similar to a compact disc. Introduction of the new tapes--which fit inside a different size tape player, of course--would further complicate students' choices of music players...
Like another doomed (and much more enjoyable) summer movie, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material girl of rock 'n' roll. With Prince it worked, mostly, because his blend of Little Richard and Little Egypt spiced the stew. But Madonna seems straitjacketed by her role, and Penn, for once, looks bored. She smiles, he glowers. Neither glows like the incandescent movie stars they can and will...
Anyone who is good with words can manufacture eloquence when it is required, but by now the war had burned away this old feature writer's professional glibness. What Pyle had begun to send back home was some of the finest war reporting ever done. His folksiness fit the slow, edgy lulls between battles, and he knew how to suggest, in spare language that avoided Hemingway's staginess but clearly was learned from the early best of Hemingway, how it felt to stumble through the bloody...