Word: lasso
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Elsewhere, Gene Autry, the Angels' owner who thought he bought himself a pennant, now realizes that all he did was lasso himself another mediocre club. Million-dollar free agent Don Baylor is particularly useful to the team: his .207 batting average wouldn't let him play in the Pacific Coast League...
Aristophanes' The Clouds, to be presented at Winthrop House in mid-April may finally persuade you that the ancient Greeks were not made of marble. As raunchy and satirical as any modern extravaganza, the play treats Socrates unmercifully. You might want to lasso a fiver into attending it with you, but most of the humor needs no exegesis...
...runs as a recurring special rather than as a series, is a particularly satisfying show in which Lynda Carter plays a World War II female Superman, lap-dissolve costume changes and all. Nevertheless, after admiring Lynda's sexy little red, white and blue suit and her golden lasso, one mostly feels that after decades of painstaking research, much trial and error, many false reports of success, the ABC gang has finally found television's Holy Grail-the one, true least common denominator...
...justify generations of thesis-writing that often seemed to make little sense. The basic theme is closure--rounding off, swallowing up, drawing a circle, grabbing the pouch of one's college experience and pulling the string. A project, a trip, where for once you had time to lasso a confusion of ideas, grit your teeth and set your heels, tying them up before they escape and presenting the prize in a blue binder and a parade of marching IBM Selectric lines to show you've tamed them. Pretty stupid, thought I... and proceeded to get seized by a brutal addiction...
Special Magic. Steer wrestlers, whose goal essentially is to pin cattle to the ground in the fastest possible time, engage in hand-to-horn combat with animals four times their size. Calf ropers have developed a special magic with a lasso-to say nothing of training their horses to keep the rope taut while the roper ties together three of the calf s legs...