Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Dave Fish sees the team sailing a smooth ship into the Princeton match February 6. Lemmon has moved up to number two ahead of Robie and Mitch Reese, both of whom, nonetheless, Fish says are playing better than they have all year...
...Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled from their home as it filled with muck. A salvage attempt proved fruitless. Says Haskins, 33: "Every time...
...fish on a small Fore-and-Aft fly with one grizzly hackle at each end of the hook and peacock herl wrapped in between," writes Carter. "Later I tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work in the meadow pools." Says Fly Fisherman Editor John Randolph of Carter's prose: "He got everything in there. He speaks the language of fly fishing...
...Springfield meet was highlighted by the individual performances of two strong freshmen, Barry Bausano and Sean Wallace. Bausano, wrestling at 167 pounds, destroyed Pat Allen, scoring a pin at 1:53 of the second period. Demonstrating a smooth and fluid technique, Bausano scored saeveral takedowns and near-falls...
Steve Martin has a face straight out of a 1930s B movie: smooth, smiling, with regular features and a subtly oafish flair to thejawline. Jessica Harper is frail, frazzled, wide-eyed and sad-mouthed in the '30s tradition of soiled ingenues. Bernadette Peters looks like the offspring of a Kewpie Doll and a Munchkin. Christopher Walken's face is a gigolo's death mask: the character lines have been ironed out, leaving only the dry-ice eyes and the knowing pout. As icons, these four performers would seem perfect for the bittersweet revisionism of this musical drama...