Word: hat
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...expresses more than just respect, a fondness for Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and especially Denis Potvin of the crumbling Islander dynasty. Mimicking strikeout Pitchers Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan, Bossy and Gretzky pass the three-goal hat-trick record to and fro. But Gretzky is most conscious of the defenseman Potvin, and not only because Potvin is one of those formidable superstructures whose presence on any side of the ice sends the pacifists to the other. Two years ago, in a slip that irritated New York fans, Gretzky referred to the Montreal Canadiens as hockey's greatest team when...
Schultz said hat many of Harvard's best musicians are no tin bands. He added, "We're here for the academics, and when the two start to conflict, the academics are going...
...grace notes and finesse. The weariness and dislocation that gripped Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow...
...highest and mightiest. Last week, at the acme of a 200th-anniversary celebration that has already included two TV shows, a souvenir book and numerous encomiums from rivals, the paper played host for four hours to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Dressed in a plaid suit and mauve hat, Her Majesty visited the freshly painted newsroom, known as "the pit," and chatted with dozens of employees, from reporters in white shirts to pressmen in working clothes. The paper's labor editor caused a brief commotion when he told BBC radio listeners that the Queen had commented on the cause...
Marceauu's notoriety arises not only from his "Style" exercises, in which he depicts a variety of professions and predicaments, but also form hie "Bip" pantomimes. The "Bip" character, whom Marceau created at the beginning of his career, is a clown whose hallmarks are his battered, beflowered opera hat and his penchant for misadventures. In Marceau's stint at the Colonial, he spends the first half of the program engaging in several style pantomimes, and the second half portraying Bip and his further...