Word: misting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone immediately thought of Joe Namath and his ad for Beauty Mist pantyhose, as if the guidelines would require him to wear them for at least one game a month. Not so. For Namath, of course, does not claim to use them but only, by implication, to admire them...
...great movies like Amarcord, Stavisky, Murder on the Orient Express and Godfather II, while all the time a real masterpiece was playing in Danvers. And I would have missed it, too, if it hadn't been for the way the Liberty Tree Mall beckoned out of the mist. As it was, I loved The Towering Inferno and didn't have to dig very deep into my satchel of critical responses to discover why. I was on the edge of my seat, breathless with delight. Yet when I walked out of the theater I was somewhat shamefaced about how unreservedly...
Adams is absolutely first-rate at making the reader feel the river mist on his face, feel the brush of wet leaves across the skin of arms and thighs, or smell the stench of a sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...
...humanities where the gains are intangible, not measurable in economic or material terms. And if the maximum salaries of Faculty professors continue to rise, as they will if Harvard wants to continue to attract the best scholars, it looks as though a dark cloud hangs over the already mist-shrouded history of the Norton chair...
...mist-shrouded clock shows a mere 9 seconds remaining in the Minnesota penalty, suddenly, visions of a ghostly gopher--freshman John Matchsky--appear. The puck comes out from behind the Crimson net, on to Matchsky's stick, and quickly disappears behind Harvard's netminder Bruce Curno to tie the game with just 11 seconds left...