Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect is disjointed from the opening sequence, a frenzied victory celebration in a skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) in an ill-paced scene that is lumbered with flat, witless dialogue ("Give me your phone number...
...bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt to the jockey's unmatched five-month winning spree. The grounded Cauthen is already champing at the bit. "He's mad that he's not out racing today," says his mother, Myra Cauthen. "He just wants to get back...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said this week that there is certainly a possibility that Champion could return to Harvard should his Washington spree turn out to be a disaster, as he is officially on a leave of absence...
...Since 1957 the fertility rate has dropped from a peak of 3.76 children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree of the postwar years. The baby boom has become a bust...
Margot McGlade, Radcliffe's number five player, had the most exciting win of the two-day spree. "I played really badly against Yale, Smith, and Amherst. Against Vassar, I was down 2-0 and I was really discouraged," McGlade said...