Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...length just prolongs the film's al ready extravagant failures. "You can't repeat the past," Nick tells Gatsby, who disagrees. Nearly everything about The Great Gatsby, though, supports Nick. At least, no one here...
...wearing out his body, no doubt about it. If he had been going out drinking every night, the solution would have been simple--dry out. But it was more complicated than that. For Beach had begun talking about the externals of his problem to everyone who would listen, sometimes repeating the same story to three or four different people in a single afternoon. Beach worried, with reason, about becoming a boring old fart before his time. He wasn't sure whether or not he was boring his listeners--he did not think he had begun to repeat his story...
...team that lost an Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League batting champion, the best righthanded pitcher in the EIBL and a hard-hitting outfielder who kept putting the ball over the fence at the most convenient times, expect, or even hope, to repeat last year's string of victories leading to an Eastern crown and a regional title? But that is exactly what coach Loyal Park's 1974 Harvard baseball teams expects...
Cornell brought in a whopping 19 junior college transfers for this season and on that fact alone looks to be strong. It was on a road trip to Cornell and Army last year that Harvard won the title, but it will take a very strong performance to repeat that sweep this year...
Following liturgical practice, the appropriate antiphons (Gregorian chants used to introduce psalms) were sung before and after each composition. Although musicologically correct, this was weak dramatically. The antiphons were violently anticlimactic coming as they did, after the most elaborate polyphony. In theory, it might seem a powerful contrast to repeat them at the end of each section; but in practice, it could only detract from a concert performance...