Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tufts women's soccer tournament began on a sour note Saturday as the Tufts men's varsity coach, in an unquestionable violation of Title 9, ordered the nets to be taken from one of the two fields to be used that day. The day ended, however, on a higher pitch as Tufts and Harvard--two teams which had tied one another, 1-1, in a 50-minute contest earlier in the afternoon--played an enthralling scoreless 30 minute playoff, emerging at the end as co-champions of the four-team round robin event...
...fail to exploit the sassy, lighthearted flavor of the classic, and sure enough, Rostropovich's overloaded Bat crashlanded into a nest of snapping critics, who almost declared war on the Soviet Union. Wrote the International Herald Tribune's David Stevens in one of the more merciful reviews: "A Slavic sour cream lay over the proceedings in place of Viennese schlag." In defense, Slava argued that he could easily have conducted a conventional Fledermaus, but had thought it "frivolous" to do so. "Anyway," he added, "who can say what the right tempi are? To whom did Johann Strauss confide what...
...game's outcome had favored Harvard, the Crimson would be in the thick of the Ivy race, but in less than a minute, the match had turned sour...
...giving the book a scope beyond the story of Dan Lavette, Fast creates something more than another tale of how the American Dream went sour. He imparts a feeling for the rich variety of life that was swirling in America while the Gross National Product expanded. Fast is, above all, a splendid storyteller, a chef whose recipe is a rich blend of human incident and emotion. And he has an ample stock of ingredients...
...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...