Word: pleasants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melrose, the sophomore transfer from North Dakota, has been a pleasant surprise. Melrose did not play hockey at all last season, watching as the Fighting Sioux demolished most everyone in its path to the national championship...
Despite the dangers of the neighborhood and the lack of affection between them, Sammy and Rosie live pleasant, lower middle-class lives until Sammy's estranged father, Rafi (Shashi Kapoor) arrives. Once a high-ranking Indian politico, Rafi moves into Sammy and Rosie's apartment with the intention of giving them their substantial inheritance so that they can move into a real house and bless him with grandchildren...
...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...
...this child coming with Petra and I really don't feel like I should go around for the rest of my life having a charge ... from the United States hanging over my head," Roberts said. "It's not a very pleasant prospect to look forward...
Deaver seems to have made a strong comeback from alcoholism, and is dealing well with the strain of his impending trial. "He is a man at peace with himself," says a friend. "He's in marvelous mental shape, relaxed, pleasant and interested in gardening." Indeed, the day before jury selection began, Deaver was in his garden planting spring bulbs, a gesture that bespeaks some hope for the future...