Word: pile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes later, the visitors kicked the ball into the Crimson's endzone. As a Harvard player attempted to down the ball, the Connecticut defense swarmed in to knock it loose. In the ensuing pile-up, a Connecticut rugger came up with the ball for a try--but not without a spot of controversy...
...stops and reassimilation of nutrients into the tree begins," Einset says. The leaves begin breaking down, and the nutrients contained in them are absorbed into the bark of the tree. So, the leave fall off and shrivel to crispy, brown leaf corpses. And all over Vermont, people begin burning pile of dead leaves in their front and back yards...
Jessie enters her bedroom to put away her own pile of clean laundry, but instead of opening the drawers as one might expect, she goes directly to the closet. There she puts various articles of clothing into bags marked for Goodwill and the Salvation Army. The few knickknacks scattered around the otherwise stripped bare room get slipped into a box under her bed. Toiletries are thrown into a plastic garbage bag and deposited into the trash...
Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell) is the consummate Manhattan-bound buppie, and his self-love provides some of the film's best moments. As a prelude to a love-making session, Childs spends several agonizing moments folding his t-shirt and shorts into an excruciatingly neat pile. His impeccable physique is his saving grace...
Complications ensue like crazy. One of them is a candidate for the New York City mayoralty, who made his pile in the TV tabernacle dodge. He is an outof- towner, really, who does not understand how things work in New York, and he wants to have Charley indicted for his sixth-to-last murder. Maerose, a more serious troublemaker, wants to take over her grandfather's operation. As usual with the author's recent entertainments, the fact that none of this makes much sense becomes a literary metaphor on the order of Melville's white whale, implying as it does...