Word: horseplaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then again, these are stereotypical Catholic lives. They are lives filled with loneliness, exhaustion, and fear; fear of God, fear of loss, fear of sin. There is no horseplay in a Gordon novel, no exorbitant fantasy. There is no security for her characters, they do not enjoy life, all stability outside the Church is illusory. The Catholic formula prevails: passion brings scandal, scandal brings dishonor, dishonor brings withdrawal and isolated solace. Gordon's characters are unhappy, but never trapped, they simply have nowhere else to go. Isabel Moore nurses her father for eleven years and is never self-pitying. That...
...very low key, all very businesslike. But the man whose passion is organization relishes horseplay in his private moments. For example, he does a first-rate imitation of George Washington trying to talk and straighten his wooden dentures at the same time. It is an act that will play well on tense White House evenings...
...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...
...Jackson, 84, gravel-voiced singer and comedian who wowed 'em in nightclubs and on TV shows, often in partnership with Jimmy Durante; in Los Angeles. The high-stepping Jackson's career first flourished during Prohibition, when he teamed with Durante and Dancer Lou Clayton in a famous horseplay-and-patter act that played Manhattan hotspots and speakeasies. He was celebrated as much for his rasping renditions of classics like Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? as for his mastery of the top hat-tipping dance form called strutting. "Nobody struts no more," he lamented...
...jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed. But he seldom indulges in nights of horseplay. His reverie is of the perfect day: "To be at our summer place in Sweden, to go out with the boat, to be on the sea. You are by yourself. No one is talking. There is just the wind...