Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed Harvard would pull away and win as expected, but Penn increased its cadence for a power move, and drew even with the Crimson at the 1000 meter mark...
...blue-collar Baltimore, 1963, these guys have Palm Springs tans. They drive Cadillacs that pull into their parking spaces like a Thanksgiving Day parade of metal sharks. Who are they -- the Mob? More like the lost patrol. They are middle-aged men without women, salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support...
...challenge the perpetrators and put an end to their nefarious plot. That is the way that Robert Ludlum or Jack Higgins would wrap up such a story, and Walker Percy scrupulously delivers all the promises his plot provides. But that is not all. For while More is trying to pull the plug on the doctored water, he must also ponder a vexing question. What is wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better...
...need not worry: the band--30 pieces strong--will be there. "I think we will be a unifying force in Detroit," says Band Manager Liz Page. "We can be a bridge between the fans who are already out there and the fans who have come from Harvard. We can pull them together with Harvard music and spirit...
...surface, this looks like The Ransom of Red Chief in one more modern movie variation. A couple of emotional nomads pull off a kidnaping, then work like thumb-tied demons to return the booty. But even the surface of a Coen brothers picture looks unlike any other. These two young guys from Minneapolis -- Joel, 32, who directs and writes, and Ethan, 29, who writes and produces -- proved with their debut film, the gory melodrama Blood Simple, that they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple...