Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to come away with even more impressive credentials. But in the last two minutes of play against Cornell, last season's final game, Irion wrenched his knee coming down with a rebound. The real damage was done, though, two months later while Irion was playing in a pickup game at Mather Huse. When he tried to pivot his leg turned but his knee remained locked in place. Irion underwent knee surgery over the summer...
...higher-court relief, 1,000 farmers flocked to the capitol in St. Paul last week to demand a moratorium on construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk...
Since I'm neither blue collar nor drive a pickup truck, I thought perhaps Schickel had merely missed me in the overall picture of Mr. Eastwood's audiences. But I can't believe that he never noticed any other women in those long lines outside the theaters. The Eastwood image of strong, quiet masculinity turns on a large female audience, even here in suburbia...
...skills with horse and rope, Henry is little more than just another underpaid and overworked hired hand. Still, he can say, "You won't see none of us giving up our freedom to join no union." That freedom includes the right to drive over rutted roads in a pickup truck with a Winchester racked in the rear window, a bottle under the seat and a horse trailer bouncing along behind. Henry also knows that if he and his buddies get a little wild, his honcho will smooth things out with...
Croce wears her knowledge easily, but it comes from time lavished in the theater with the prodigality of a monk in his chapel. Critical scale in dance can be acquired only by watching every possible performance-every last Giselle, however badly miscast, any tentative choreographer who can get a pickup company together for a few evenings in a church basement. Years of such observation inform Croce's asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward...