Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diamond says, however, that he has no particular axe to grind with Harvard. The New York Review of Books article was the only one in which he discussed his own experiences in the McCarthy period...
...scientist even insinuated that Meselson has a professional are to grind over the yellow rain issue, alleging that Meselson is acting "not as a scientist, but as a politician...
...likes Don Giovanni, not even his dedicated servant Leporella. And the entire opera involves a number of characters who have an axe to grind with the infamous seducer, who nonchalantly displays his talents while the others hatch their plans. But in the end Don Giovanni meets his deserving demise, not from the living characters, but from the ghost of a man whom the protagonist killed in a fit of rage at the beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background...
...failed at his second attempt to capture the larger screen (High Road to China came first). His dimpled affability has garnered an affectionate viewership, and enabled him to walk through weekly episodes of a standard-issue television series: geniality, however, is of negligible value during cinematic scenes which grind so slowly, one can hear crew members in the background phoning home for late dinners...
...usual, the Theatricals deliver a wildly campy script crammed with puns, double-entendres and Harvard references, and a dozen or so men in ornate female clothing rush around onstage and do the bump and grind. (Since this year is an Amazon theme, we also get a bonus on chest hair.) And also as usual, Act I contains rudimentary plot development, sexual innuendo, and jokes about Harvard administrators in the audience--a spectacle immediately preceded by the opportunity to watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when...