Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climbed the fence and reached into the pine trees to rob Bulldog third baseman Mike Kahney of a sure home run in the fifth and then snagged a sinking pop-up off the bat of center fielder Keith Reams in the eighth...
...coaches have been working with me on staying back in the box, on keeping my hands loose and going with the ball," Binkowski said. "[Steitz] had some nice pop on his fastball, but I was able to turn on it and drive...
...field, junior Greg Krauss built a wall to cover second base. Junior outfielders Josh Simon and Noah Oppenheim came through with flawless defense, while catcher Meredith Osborne caught pop-ups at he plate...
Those are just the movie references. The Wachowskis, both dropouts from good colleges (Larry from Bard, Andy from Emerson), want to weld classic lit, hallucinogenic imagery and a wild world of philosophical surmises to pop culture. The Bible meets Batman; Lewis Carroll collides with William Gibson; Greek and geek mythology bump and run. Hell, you may find string theory in The Matrix...
...quiet desperation among the symbol manipulators, another examination of how the anarchic spirit of the '60s got sold out. But this adaptation of Julian Barnes' first novel, by director Philip Saville and screenwriter Adrian Hodges, has some good things going for it. They understand that it isn't politics, Pop Art or drugs that would come permanently to haunt the memories of that brief, lost time for people like Chris. It's the sex, stupid. And the freedom that era offered to pursue it across all sorts of formerly formidable barriers...