Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still has a long way to go. The Reporter's night-life writer, George Christy, often requires people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column...
...only girl on a Little League team overcompensate for her gender. Oberon is done to a star turn by William Hurt (Body Heat), who is so in love with the sound of his own voice that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment in the Cuisinart of his ego. It is a measure of the play's richness that some of its sweet essence survives such thoughtless processing...
...Arabic, "Don't be afraid. Go where we told you to. Leave your houses." This was evidently addressed to West Beirut civilians. But if anyone had been far enough aboveground to hear the exhortation, he or she could hardly have complied: anything waving a finger in the 60-meter-wide alley at the so-called museum crossing would have been killed instantly. Amid all this, roosters began to crow...
...Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
Sophomore Dan Watson finished lower than expected in men's diving competition but still managed to place sixth in the 10-meter event...