Word: romps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WASN'T just because of the bad "entertainment," which comes as a part of every year's ceremony, although certainly watching Telly Savalas, Pat Morita and Dom DeLouise romp through a number from Guys and Dolls was a treat to be savored. It wasn't just that Bette Davis--this year's ailing, infirm old celebrity-to-be-brought-out-of-mothbolls-for-the-o bligatory-thrity-second-standing-ovation--was particularly ailing and infirm and painful to watch as she struggled through her presentation. It wasn't the numerous technical guffaws, the overly long acceptance speeches, all the celebrities...
...second and concluding volume of Ernest Samuels' biography of the connoisseur presents a larger, more complex picture. Berenson's scholarship is treated with greater respect than in Simpson's jolly romp through the mud. Samuels ascribes the controversial changes of attributions to advancements in knowledge and techniques, and points out that Berenson usually covered himself by stressing the tentative nature of his craft. Duveen is brushed in as a necessary evil that his aging colleague came to regret. "I cannot tell you," Berenson wrote to his wife Mary, "what loathing all that part of my past and present inspires...
Harvard completed its romp when Joslin registered an unassisted goal early in the period. Overall, White stopped seven shots on goal in the final period...
John Bernheimer mixed deep cross-court and rail shots to romp over the Big Green's John Zonis...
...despite the changes, the Crimson found little difficulty in remaining unbeaten with a 103-37 romp over the Big Green...