Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quick Pick...
...floor would fill the school's crying need for more basketball courts," he said, adding "Harvard has no courts where people can go and just play a quick pick-up game...
...noise of the Bush band next door. Baggy-eyed and drawn, Connally sat in his suite in a beige chair as the time for balloting approached. Someone mentioned the morning line from Vegas, and Connally quickly wanted to know the odds. "Eleven to ten, Reagan. Take your pick," was the reply. The big man stretched and grinned with satisfaction...
Instead of being given a script, Justin was told by Hoffman what a scene was about and then allowed to say whatever he wanted. "When kids learn lines," says Hoffman, "you can't cut them with an ice pick." Camera angles were kept simple so that father and son, who were expected to improvise, could move wherever they wanted. In one early scene Justin, who was supposed to be rebelling against Hoffman, showed his defiance by eating a bowl of ice cream after he had been told not to. But Justin, suddenly the improvisational actor, turned the battle into...
Veterans Rvan Lamppa, Noel Seidmore and Peter Johnson provide considerable depth McCurdy can rely on them to pick up the slack when he needs to use his all American trio in other events...