Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Proulx held onto his lead, the players couldn't hold to their equipment. At various times during the rough and tumble contest, players lost three helmets, two sticks and two gloves on the ice. Play turned sloppy, bodies swept the wet ice and cheap shots made their marks on both teams. It will be a bruised and bandaged Providence squad that takes the ice against the Crimson tonight...
...FILM is no grim war epic--lest the Tragic muse settle over the events like a vulture, a wonderfully rough comic sense continually jostles it aside, and the two end up coexisting guardedly. Symbolic of the filmmakers' attitude is the scene in the beginning of the film when Cecelia, sitting in church, stares at the horribly gruesome fresco of the torments of hell on the wall--in response to the crosseyed anguish of one of the damned, Cecilia crosses her own eyes in delight...
...PROBLEM is that Weir's scattershot, almost stream-of-consciousness approach makes this theme almost impossible to unearth With a plot that gets steadily more indecipherable. Weir becomes incoherent with the gravity of his many messages. The signals are confusing from the start. When Guy Hamilton, a rough, unschooled foreign correspondent from Australia, arrives in Jakarta to make himself a name, it looks like we're in for a simple adventure romance. Having decided to put on some decent clothes since his appearance last summer in "Road Warrior," Mel Gibson looks and plays perfectly the stereotypical cub reporter--cheeky, brash...
Those amateurs have more than a love of their subjects. Judith Thurman views the practice as a form of alchemy. Describing the clear consomme made by Isak Dinesen's African cook, she writes, "You keep the spirit, but discard the rough ingredients: eggshells and raw bones. You then submit them to fire and patience. And the clarity comes at the end like a magic trick." The recipe stands as a metaphor for all well-written Lives...
...small signs that the Sandinistas are growing more self-confident is the disappearance of roving goon squads from Managua streets. The gangs were used to rough up antagonists to the regime and break up opposition political rallies. Now the Sandinistas claim that freedom of assembly is being respected. They also say they are drafting a law that will guarantee a role for opposition political parties, in theory at least. Such progress, however, is likely to be limited as long as the Sandinistas can claim that extraordinary domestic measures are needed to confront foreign threats. Through their protests and actions last...