Word: recapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, Mira, Val and their friends marched to the Boston Common in a huge protest against the United States invasion of Cambodia. The group returned to Val's and turned on the news, awaiting some recap of the event. They were interrupted by a phone call from Val's daughter Chris, a freshman in college. She had been raped. Violence had come full circle since Mira's night in Kelly...
From that first taste of fame I was hooked, I had to have "ink." On into high school the peculiar malady stuck with me. The morning after every game I would pick up the paper and scan the sports pages for the recap of our game--and for my name. After the season I would re-enact each game from the written record provided by our friendly sportswriter...
First, to recap: The Crimson victories can be listed in a very small amount of space. Brandeis, Rochester, Brown, B.C., B.U., Yale, Cornell, and Columbia. But that is just the tip of the iceberg...
...deal with such problems, and to avoid the recriminations that surrounded the prisoner exchanges at the end of the Korean War, the Pentagon has devised a program with the elaborate and somewhat mysterious name of Operation Egress Recap. (Possibly a combination of the prisoners' "egress" from North Viet Nam and their "recapture" by the U.S., though Washington spokesmen profess uncertainty as to what the terms actually mean.) U.S. officials hope to bring out the prisoners by sending Air Force C-141 Medevac planes directly to Hanoi; more likely the Communists will fly the men to Laos or some other neutral...
...second act the show actually begins to move-yet, even here, there is some dawdling. One climactic scene is followed by a song in which the show's urchin-narrators merely recap the action, making no additional comment on the scene we have just seen. The number takes place in front of the scrim. and possibly the only reason for its existence is to allow the sets to be changed. In addition, there is the clambake scene, whose importance to the second act escapes me, but which features a pointless dance number so old-fashioned that even Agnes de Mille...