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Davis himself was a "great tea-toast-and-honey man" as a high-school quarter-miler, he says, and rarely competed without eating the meal beforehand...
...approach used to paint this depressing picture is straightforward narrative, an approach apparently out of style these days. Woodward, quite simply, wants to let the facts speak for themselves, and he describes in generally chronological order Belushi's rise from a Wheaton, III high-school wimderkind to ace comic of Chicago's comedy troupe Second City, to blubbering star of NBC's Saturday Night Live, to the mega-star of Animal House and half (with partner Dan Ackroyd) of the Blues Brothers, and finally to his death...
...year-old monarch is the father of three high-school age children--two daughters and one boy. Princess Sophia is reportedly a teacher at the University of Madrid
...author's evident flexibility of diction is another such pleasure. Atwood can range with ease from the academically highbrow to the high-school casual. Even this talent comes under self-satire from time to time, as in "Writing the Male Character...
Swing Shift tells the story of a young woman Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn), who marries her high-school sweetheart, Jack (Ed Harris), only to find her blissful newlywed life disrupted by the reality of World War II. With the outbreak of war, Jack immediately enlists in the Marines. When Jack leaves, Kay gets a job at a factory which makes fighter planes and works the late swing shift with hundreds of other newly employed women. At the factory she meets and eventually falls in love with one of the line leaders. Lucky (Kurt Russell), who was turned down...