Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend Andy, who had five or six birthday parties at bowling alleys, established the record for bowling when he rolled a birthday-record, 12--straight gutter balls. I think he did this the same year he got 16 model airplanes and a pair of socks for his birthday...
...football, we always went bowling at birthday parties. We became very competitive during the games, and each roll of the ball seemed to carry with it an enormous burden, as the entire birthday crowd gathered to watch. A strike was a rare thing and was greeted with applause. A gutter ball was a more frequent thing and was laughed...
Before my parents were divorced, my family used to go bowling four times a year or so. My sister, like Andy, had a knack for rolling gutter balls. She usually rolled a few frames and then went off to sip Cokes and play video games...
...became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators. Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm...
...actress and a renowned teacher who is too infrequently seen in major productions, is really too old for the vibrantly sensual, fiftyish Warren. But she handles the confrontations stunningly. In the most striking moment, she wheels on her daughter, drops her posh accent and snarls a question in the gutter Cockney she spoke as a girl, revealing a whole lost life in the intonation of a few syllables. Outsize in energy but subtle in her thinking, Hagen remains among the strongest single forces on the American stage...