Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tired of backing off alone?" query the posters advertising the Yard's latest game craze. And judging from the enthusiasm at yesterday's first annual Hackey-Sack Awareness Day, the answer for some freshmen...
TIMOTHY CROUSE writes about it in his literary ode to reporters on the tortuous campaign trail: It's the fear of missing the assasination or the major gaffe that finally rolls every member of the pack out of the sack at some ungodly hour day after day. But not even the most hard-assed editor would have legitimately expected his reporter to be there on October 21, when Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Headlee dropped the campaign's bombshell and dramatically dashed his fortunes...
...comparison. A Concorde jet taking off next door? Not jangling enough. The only suitable comparison is with the one thing some of us has ever experienced. The day Ronnie drops the bomb and civil defense alarms go off across the country. Lowellians are going to roll over in the sack, mutter, "just another goddamn alarm," pull their pillows over their ears and hold their bedmates extra close. Then again, that's probably the best...
...Brattle Theater on Brattle St. shows classics, the Galerin on Bolyston St. offers an interesting mix of old and new. For the season's that staff, check the SACK listings in Boston and the 'burbs...
...about this). So he has imported Doll Tearsheet from 2 Henry IV and interpolated a low-life scene from that play. And just before the end of the show, after the climactic Battle of Shrewsbury, Coe brings on Falstaff to declaim his long paean to the wonders of sherry sack--which also comes from the later play--and thus mars Shakespeare's carefully wrought conclusion. There are, too, some lines that have been moved from their proper place...