Word: slid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVERYBODY HAS HIS PROFESSIONAL UPS and downs, and the ups and downs in show business tend to be extreme. But even by the standards of the movie industry, Robert Altman's ups and downs have been both numerous and extravagant. After making his first feature at 30, Altman slid back into yeoman Hollywood anonymity for a decade, directing episodic TV. Then in 1970 there was M *A *S *H, a commercial blockbuster and generational lodestar. Within a year came the dense, dreamy, elegiac western McCabe and Mrs. Miller, then other sly, quirky dramas (The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California...
With 4:06 remaining in the game, Downing--moving from behind the goal--slid into the left post and slipped the ball past Maryland goalie Mandy Stevenson to put the Crimson up, 6-5, a lead it would never relinquish...
...prices plummet to $9 per bbl. Just as the region was attempting to diversify out of its energy dependence, the gulf crisis suddenly forced prices to $40 in 1990, spurring some drillers to crank up rigs again. But when the war ended, hopes were dashed just as quickly; prices slid back down, and the small trickle of investment money dried...
...train pulls out, you'll see the letter H." So said the train conductor, leaning out of the train as it slid away from the Dedham platform. We were alone. Behind us loomed a forest, above a starless night sky, and in front a seemingly endless snow-covered parking lot. Our eyes fixed on a neon H in the distance. We headed out across the neverending...
During that next hour, King dragged out one disingenuous response after another, but his voice stil poured out of radios nationwide, for talk radio is an addiction. And as the night slid on, so did the talk radio host, dissolving all the heated issues of the day into tepid conversations...