Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tracksters ended their regular season in triumph over Yale in their only home meet May 2. In a decisive 77-50 victory, the Crimson continued a 14-year tradition of defeating Yale in track. However, being gracious hostesses, the Distinguished Performer Award went to a Yalie. Junior Pat Melton earned the honors by winning five events, including the long jump, the 400-meter hurdles, and the 100-yard dash...
Here at TIME we take appropriate pride in our work, but it is always gratifying to get a pat on the back from someone else. In the past two weeks TIME's writers and editors were given four prestigious "pats," bringing to 28 the number of awards the magazine has received this year. TIME is especially pleased to be honored with a National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism for three pieces written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow. The judges cited "Rediscovering America" (July 7, 1980), "The Return of Patriotism" (March 10, 1980) and "Back to Reticence...
Third baseman Pat Horne, the only player to collect more than one hit, went two-for-two, knocked in three runs, and raised her batting average to an awesome...
...company comes onstage and dances a jig. Their steps are careful. Scrupulously well-executed: you can see the concentration on their faces, in their wide alert eves, in their lips that move softly as they count the beats. The tinny sound of the piano and the gently pitter-pat of shoes upon the set's wooden-board floor echo through the house. Occasionally, one of the more confident dancers lets out a strained cheer or cutious exclamation. The footwork is fascinating, but so lacking in cluberance that it seems more like an exercise than a dance. This jig-perfectly executed...
...production gains its only vigor. Its spasmodic brightness, from the cast members, most of whom deliver very fine performances. As pat, the punchy cynical caretaker of the house. Brian McCue is quite good, but, as in many of his past performances, the seams show. There's a "stagey" quality to his limp, his wry grin, his extravagant gestures: one can see too clearly the thought behind every inflection, perhaps. McCue hoped to play upon Behan's theme of dramatic distance, to make the audience sharply conscious of the fact that they are in a theater viewing a performance. Unfortunately...