Word: freaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freak storm covered the city with 25 inches of snow that late March week, making conditions unfavorable for public protest. But it was the violence that would distress King more. Members of the Invaders, a local group of black militants, infiltrated his march with the garbage men. When windows were smashed, police moved in against orderly demonstrators and radicals alike. Despondent over the chaos and the rift in his once solid movement, King said, "Maybe the good people should just stand aside until the violence has run its course...
Harvard's hockey team advances to the NCAA finals against Michigan State. A freak accident involving a drunken Zamboni driver and five upperclassmen in bunny suits leaves the starting line-ups of both teams unable to compete...
Cornell Coach Mike Dement called a timeout, but a freak play handed the ball and the momentum back to the Crimson...
This deflection of scrutiny away from himself toward the playing field is typical of Giamatti. He is, at age 50, an unabashed baseball freak, an older version of the boy who grew up in South Hadley, Mass., being taught to love the Boston Red Sox by his father, a professor of Italian at Mount Holyoke College. Faithful to his genteel upbringing, Giamatti neither seeks nor seems to relish attention. He keeps his private life just that; Toni, his wife of 28 years, two sons and a daughter are all rigorously shielded from outside prying. It is also true that during...
What's going on here? Are young moviegoers tiring of summer comedies and eager for a little dog-days shock therapy? Not likely: the season's other horror movies have been flops. Then is the answer just Freddy, the perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture...