Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin provided the key to the spurt of excellent hockey--the squad's finest quarter-hour in two years--with defensive efficiency up front. The former highlighted the effort with a 75-yd. clear from deep in her own zone, while the latter dropped further back than usual from her position as cherrypicker to aid the defensive cause with her speed and stick work...
Siegelman echoes the latter problem, pointing out that some students think if you come down to Room 13 it means "you're not in control of your life...
...measure passes, it will indicate either that Massachusetts voters are fed up with a regressive tax structure or fed up with taxes in general--more likely the latter. Had Boston Mayor Kevin White vociferously opposed the measure (he has said almost nothing), he could have been forced into a double take, a la Jerry Brown...
...easy to blend social comedy with slapstick, especially when the emphasis is on the latter. Farce is a precision instrument: the cuckolded husband must negotiate a labyrinth of plot twists before he opens his bedroom door at the split second his lovely young wife adjusts her peignoir and the milkman defenestrates himself. Farce demands ingenuity, grace and discipline - qualities in short supply on network TV. Occasionally those magic imps Penny Marshall (Laverne) and Cindy Williams (Shir ley) bring it off. Now Chris Thompson and Joel Zwick, two veterans of L & S, have devised Bosom Buddies (ABC, Thursdays...
...Drood continuations appear. The Decoding of Edwin Drood (Scribners; $10.95) is written by Charles Forsyte, the nom de plume for a husband-and-wife team of British mystery writers. The Forsyte book picks up where Dickens departed but omits the preceding chapters. The reader is left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer...