Word: mislaid
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Orel Hershiser, a late bloomer mislaid for five years in the Dodger farm system, considers Gooden's primary talent "just the fact of how natural he can make himself feel in a stadium full of people. I've watched him, and I don't know whether he's any more natural when he's alone. The days I make it look easy when it wasn't easy are my proudest. But for him, I think it is easy. I just think he knows what he wants to be. If you don't know what you want to be, people...
...temporary period he may find himself rooting with Harvard so fellow students don't beat him up," says the elder Nordhaus. "His youthful mislaid enthusiasm will change...
...Elmore Leonard's crime fiction are painfully apparent in the adaptation of Stick, which he has written with Joseph C. Stinson: lots of plotting, but no compelling narrative drive; plenty of characterological tics, but no characters whom one really cares for. In the title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose moral code imposes on him a mission of revenge...
...return of the shy, self-effacing Dent to his home planet after a successful demolition-eve escape. He has spent the intervening eight years hitching rides on passing spacecraft, snacking at duty-free shops on distant planets and encountering such diverse creatures as a lost tribe of ballpoint pens mislaid by former owners, and a race of marketing executives who, despite 573 committee meetings, have still not discovered the wheel ("All right, Mr. Wiseguy . . . you tell us what color it should be"). To Dent's surprise, earth has somehow escaped destruction, but all the dol phins have mysteriously disappeared...
...cloud cover figured to be less. Aside from Pheidippides, the gasping Greek who established the marathon distance in his farewell appearance as a messenger, the most famous Olympic swooner before Andersen-Schiess was, of course, a man: Dorando ("Wrong Way") Pietri, an Italian who mislaid the finish line in 1908 in London...