Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patience strategy worked nicely for the first quarter, as the teams traded unassisted goals to make it 1-1 after 15 minutes. UMass tallied first on a solo effort by Chris Zusi, but Harvard fought right back three minutes later when sophomore Steve Lux spun past his defender and shot the ball past LoCascio to even things...
...ruggers displayed some great athletic effort on their final two trys. With time running out in the first half, inside center Chris Arbery sliced through the Lion defense for big yardage. A great defensive play by Columbia appeared to stop Arbery at the goal line, but the 160 pounder spun out of the tackle and muscled his way into the end zone for the score...
...STORIES of the movie star and of W218 are spun out of fantasy, full of superhuman characters and improbable events; by contrast, Ana is portrayed through her diary entries and conversations as a believable and realistic character, with human proportions and human problems--illness, exile, old lovers. The novel shuttles back and forth between these separate narratives, creating a web of associations and hazy relationships between the three women. But little is revealed to the reader for certain; of this complex interplay we know only that W218 is a descendent of the long-dead movie star, whom she sees...
...Ruth Condomine (Ivey) is in love with her novelist husband Charles (Chamberlain); so is hoydenish Elvira (Danner), his late wife, whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when they mockingly meddle in the supernatural to gather color for one of Charles' books, they bring chaos crashing down upon themselves...
...writes, "they could have seen ((the explosion)) reflected from the moon, literal moonshine." But moments after the artificial sunburst, witnesses became awed captives of their immediate surroundings: "The horses in the MP stable still whinnied in fright; the paddles of the dusty Aermotor windmill at Base Camp still spun away the energy of the blast; the frogs had ceased to make love in the puddles...