Word: grails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home of the Los Angeles Raiders playing football with the only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...
...radical feminism, I had been searching for an "answer"--a sense of purpose and direction which would make it possible to wake up each morning feeling strong and optimistic instead of inadequate and terrified. But immersing myself in academics, love and ideology had not led me to the grail. My Korean parents waxed Confucian whenever I cried on the phone to them, imploring me to look "within" for the answer. But for some reason, whether it was because I had spent too many years watching Johnny Carson, or because my Fioruccis fit too tightly, or because of my pigpen...
Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail...
...radical feminism I had been searching for an "answer" --a sense of purpose and direction which would make it possible to wake up each morning feeling strong and optimistic in stead of inadequate and terrified. But immersing myself in academics love and ideology had not led me to the grail My Korean parents waxed Confucian whenever I cried on the phone to them. imploring me to look "within" for the answer. But for some reason whether it was because I had spent too many years watching Johnny Carson, or because of my pigpen in Weld, I saw only a void...
...subject is out of bounds," he maintains, "you're up against the wall." Not everyone finds those standards agreeable--one backer of Jabberwocky abruptly pulled out, leaving some legal threads dangling, after he saw the script--but the strategy has paid off with audiences. Monty Python and the Holy Grail made 200,000 pounds, or about half a million dollars; Life of Brian did nearly as well...