Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rick and Julie and Dina. Deena, said Dina. They went to a drive-in. This is my first time, said Sammy, and he almost dropped the speaker out the window. None of them liked beer so they brought wine. When the movie ended, Rick was asleep in Julie's lap in the back seat. Sammy liked the movie. They went to Julie's house and watched TV but they had finished the wine and the wine had finished Rick and no one wanted to sleep more than Julia so Sammy and Dina carried Rick back to the backseat and went...
...young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers Fillingham. "I'll blow you for a drink" gets a raucous laugh O'Neill never...
...thinclad was making a characteristically strong move on the final lap when he was jostled at the last turn and couldn't regain the momentum, leaving the race to DeRienzo...
...addition to his strength, discipline and sheer natural speed, Heiden has another edge: he is a shrewd competitor. Speaking of the 10,000, his final test, he told TIME Associate Editor B.J. Phillips last week: "It is a strategy race. You have your intervals [planned times for each lap] and you try to keep to them but, within that, there are things you can do to work on the other guy. You can try to get behind him for a few moments and let him break the wind for you, like race-car drivers do. Or you can pick...
...last four 400-meter laps, Heiden was magnificent. Despite the growing pain, he skated each lap in exactly 35.2 sec. Finishing in 14:28.13, he was so tired that he could not even lift his head on his victory lap, let alone acknowledge the cheers...