Word: pleasants
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...treading on dangerous turf when one is a "Resident Alien" (the pleasant INS euphemism for "foreigner") and dares to critique any aspect of Americana. So let me preempt my words by saying how much I love America. If I didn't genuinely love this country and its many magnificent qualities, I wouldn't be here...
...rail against the fates and begin to dissolve into self-pity. Perhaps this is understandable for a middle-aged actress whose career is going out the window and whose lovers are dwindling, but I am sure that the real Bankhead in the throes of self-pity was not a pleasant sight. Turner's portrayal is no more enjoyable, but just as the play seems to be mired down in whiskey-soaked emotion, Heyward throws out a wise-crack that shows Bankhead has at least not lost her sense of humor...
...Pleasant lost two yards on the next play as he tried to run up the middle, but was stopped in the backfield by Scherrer...
...first and goal at the nine, Lehigh lined up in a pro set--two running backs in the I formation and two wide receivers--and gave the ball to Pleasant on a sweep. Good blocking by the Mountain Hawk receivers and pulling guards sealed the corner and allowed Pleasant to dive into the end zone putting Lehigh...
Joanna White, a music professor in Mount Pleasant, Mich., left her bulky "savings" box of childhood memorabilia in her parents' garage in Kensington, Calif., until shortly before her 40th birthday this year. The things in that carton represented her "young self," she explains, who was creative and a writer. On her last visit, though, she did bring the box's contents back to Michigan because she wanted to show her daughter Kailey, 7, who's talking about being a writer, the stories she had written at age seven. "When Kailey read them," White relates, "she decided that at that...