Word: offguard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenacious baseliner kept her opponent offguard with incredible saves and a variety of spins and paces...
...announcement of the House's new name caught many Sollo dwellers, including the masters, offguard. "It came as a complete surprise," said Associate Master Ann Wacker, who added that she was "delighted South House is going to have a real name instend of just being a direction...
...Lions. If anything, the aquamen had overlooked Navy the day before in preparation for Columbia. Navy's shave--which allows a team to take off the excess hair that accounts for unwelcome excess surface area and along the way pick up a huge psychological lift--caught the Crimson offguard...
...however, there is the interview known as a hatchet job: a familiar hazard show business that was extended in the 1960s to politics by the New Journalists. Among its techniques are posing embarrassing questions either to get an offguard answer or, failing that, to describe the subject's evasive tics and mannerisms. Hatchet jobs survive, among other places, in the Style section of the Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims...
Ironically, the movie's most poignant moments center around the older Stetsons (Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley). Both Dennehy and Ashley are superb as parents caught completely offguard by their son's defection to a world of make believe. They cling together as they try to retain their grip on their own values which Danny's indoctrination into Homeland has shaken. Should they feel responsible for failing to provide their son with an idealistic, equitable world? Should Danny blame them for his vulnerability to the hypnotic world of the cults...