Word: ryder
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...years critics said he was too casual and lacked the competitive fire to go with a liquid swing that makes even other pros jealous. When he blew a 5- ft. putt to help the American team lose the Ryder Cup to Britain in 1989, he wept. His friend Raymond Floyd, 49, as intense on the course as Couples is relaxed, taught him some golf truths, prime among them that when a player has a lead, he needs to get a bigger lead. In winning the Masters, Couples beat -- who else? -- Raymond Floyd, by two strokes...
Cambridge awarded a $2,285,000 contract Thursday to Tocci Building Corporation of Woburn. A ground-breaking ceremony will be held during mid-March or early April to celebrate the beginning of construction, which is expected to last nine months, said Paul R. Ryder, director of recreation for the city...
...Nelson touches on these matters in glittering moments rather than digging in with Shavian relentlessness. He focuses on three actors: William Charles Macready (Brian Bedford), the English Macbeth, a man with no life save work and drinking; Edwin Forrest (Victor Garber), the American Macbeth, a compulsive seducer; and John Ryder (Zeljko Ivanek), dogsbody to Macready and fill-in Macduff for Forrest, who comes alive only when being someone else. All three are splendid, as is Jack O'Brien's staging of the Broadway season's first substantial new American play. W.A.H.III
...then, does one suspect that Roberts has been more lucky than smart? Because there is an emptiness at the core of her charm. You will look in vain for, say, the weary beauty of Michelle Pfeiffer, the elfin intensity of Winona Ryder, the resilient wit of Jodie Foster, the cunning sensuality of Annette Bening. Most of all, Roberts lacks mystery. She does not seduce the viewer into wanting to know more about her characters or herself. She is not the engine of movie hits, only their ornament...
MERMAIDS. This mother-daughter comedy has all the trappings of 1963 nostalgia -- the pop tunes, the cars and clothes, the Kennedy assassination -- plus another movie anachronism: a lot of old-fashioned heart. As Cher's daughter, roiled by puberty and obsessed with the lives of the saints, Winona Ryder confirms that she is America's most winning young actress...