Word: roughed
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...million information folders on people, companies and news topics, 87,000 books and government publications and a running collection of several hundred periodicals. About the only thing it lacks is space, so extraneous or outdated materials are constantly being weeded out. Says Lightman: "We try to keep a rough balance between what comes in and what goes...
...Bros, near London, hacking out scripts about messenger boys and Victorian philanthropists. None are produced. In 1937, at the suggestion of his agent, Powell journeys to Hollywood. The high point of his stay in Celluloid City is a lunch at the MGM commissary with Scott Fitzgerald, who draws a rough map of North America for the English visitor, diagramming with arrows the directions from which culture has flowed into...
Harvard's inability to put any offensive thrust together came at least in part because the game had more fouls than Frank Perdue's farm. Four Harvard players fouled out and the rough physical action inside took its toll. "I never felt as sore as I do now," Fleming said afterwards. "I got knocked all over the place...
...speech contained no surprises, since the general outlines of Reagan's program had been carefully circulated in advance. The President prepared the address in what is now becoming the usual way. White House Speechwriter Ken Khachigian put together a rough draft, which Reagan reworked sporadically during a Camp David weekend. Crammed as it was with fiscal details, the speech could not display Reagan at his rhetorical best. For once, the master of the TV homily and the after-dinner pep talk appeared not only ill at ease but even a bit defensive, as he spent some of the opening...
...hallucinating. But then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that isn't flat or a photograph can be classified as sculpture, like Scott Burton's table made of sheet onyx lit from inside, or his chairs-two hunks of rough gray gneiss, cut in a way that makes only minimal concessions to human buttocks, impartially devoid of life as sculpture and comfort as furniture...