Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite an erroneous announcement to the contrary at last weeks' Greater Boston Track Championships, Mel Embree's GBC and Harvard indoor high jump record of 7-ft. 2 1/4 in., still stands. And despite an achilles tendon injury and a successful law career, Embree is still jumping...
Lily Tomlin aspires to Chaplinesque heights of comic intuition and craftsmanship. As a movie performer. Tomlin has every other American comedian beat--the nebbishness of Woody Allen, the manic antics of Mel Brooks, and the shrill flightiness of Goldie Hawn cannot come close. Such comics lack Tomlin's mastery of the subtle comic flourish, the slight gesture or tiny twitch that not only reveals character but grabs the Big Laugh as well...
...well-placed slap shot by MTU right wing Mel Pearson at 8:25 changed everything, giving the Huskies a 1-0 advantage and reversing the momentum. From that point, all the Crimson could do was hang on, and the score was 4-1 by the end of the first period...
...market. Last year a new car buyer in Michigan would have paid an average 12.68% interest for a 48-month new car loan. Now the interest rate is 16.05%. That can add as much as $50 to a car payment every month. Says Detroit Ford Dealer Mel Farr: "People want to buy cars, but they can't because of the basic high cost and the interest rates. Showroom traffic has just died. It is really depressing...
Simon's study of Mel's boredom bogs down by the second act, and Mel and Edna's quarreling begins to grate. Likewise, Simon is out of his league when he attempts to portray a nervous breakdown; as a result Achtman is forced to rely on a farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...