Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, the production is well-paced and though it isn't perfect it does the job. Tremblay's script handles the rest...
...University of New Hampshire Wildcats had just grabbed the 18th Annual ECAC college hockey tournament, their first championship in ten tries at post-season play; now their fans could savor total triumph, while the rest of us just let linger the memory of an intense night of hockey at the Garden...
...rest of the game, Silk sits face down in the penalty box, looking up exactly once to check his surroundings. Presumably, he is tired, angry, disappointed--and embarrassed. When the contest finally ends, Silk foregoes the handshaking ceremonies and skates directly to the lockers. Get me out of here, his face says...
...unfortunate effect of such invective is to obscure Heller's strength as a connoisseur of absurdity. When his novel is as good as gold, it is a stinging satire etched in acid. The rest of the time, it is only a polemic finger-painted in bile...
...bawdy detail, Spyker (pseudonym for Poet and Novelist Richard Elman) compresses each life into a tidy epiphany; an individual is captured with an anecdote or gesture, an eccentricity or epitaph. Judge Fury collected wives and knives; "P.C.B." Terry, who once took a swig of that carcinogenic chemical, spent the rest of his life growing tomatoes that no one else dares to eat. Hypolite Hargrove made a small fortune concocting cocaine-spiked fruit drinks savored by Mark Twain and Jenny Lind...