Word: rakings
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...booing Bob Stanley is one thing. After all, when he pitches, it's double jeopardy for Sox faithful: opposing hitters have a field day with his stuff; and there's nobody left in the bullpen to smash stray beach balls mercilessly with the pitchers' mound rake...
...could only rake up the single tally, and the Crimson escaped the inning with a three-run advantage...
...said to have scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters. But his own paintings cooked themselves down to blistered wrecks, sometimes within the lifetime of the sitters. An elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled than he had become. One might say it is to Joshua Reynolds, rather than Oscar Wilde, that / the portrait...
...sandbox, a six-year-old boy is attacked by a playmate wielding a toy rake. The child retaliates with a toy hoe, hacking his assailant to death. Nearly a half-century later, while seeing his son off to summer camp, the killer, grown to uneasy manhood, is accidentally hit with the lid of a taxi trunk; he bleeds profusely, and for a few minutes believes he is dying. These ) events merge in his mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with...
...past years, however, the movies just ain't what they used to be. "Movies used to rake in the bucks," says Leverett House film society president Michael A. Cohen '86. He says that one reason for the decline in movie attendance may be increased availability of videocassette machines...