Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLEASANT SURPRISE in I Ought to be in Pictures is the low-key performance of Ann-Margaret as Herb's girlfriend Stephanie Stephanie is the most sensible character in the film, and as such she delivers the most serious lines and she doesn't have to scream to get her point across. Simon uses her as a straight woman to the wise-cracking Herb and Libby, and Ann-Margaret makes the most of this position by never allowing herself to be upstaged. This is an unusual role for her, and she plays it with strength and credibility, thus surpassing...
...flourishes in part because much of the area is relatively virgin territory for the rich. "It's no longer pleasant to go to the South of France," sniffs one visitor. "It's so inundated, the pleasure is gone. Life in Southern California revolves around private homes and backyard swimming pools. They've overcasualized; there's almost an absence of tone." Says Helen Boehm, president of the porcelain company that bears her name: "I've been all over the world, and this place has glamour, color and manicure." Boehm (rhymes with dream) saw her very...
...other games earlier in the week, co-captain Carroll Lowenstein paced the Crimson to a seventh-place showing at the New England Division 1 NCAA qualifying tournament, held at the Pleasant Valley Country Club near Worcester. Lowenstein shot 78 and 77 to tie Rhode Island's Pat Horgan for low-score medalist honors, then won the two-hole, sudden death playoff...
...among the latter the Faculty has a pleasant surprise for you, Next fall, Harvard will unveil Expository Writing 2-the intensive writing elective for upperclassmen for whom Expos just wasn't enough...
...between Houses and toward particular masters. On the inconsequential subject of a couple of mugs of beer on a Saturday night, the masters should quickly establish slight house taxes and cease trying to administer the policy themselves. Further neglect could turn what should be nothing more than an altogether pleasant subject into an absurdly controversial issue...