Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold jets of air blast into every pore in the faces of stragglers making their way down the uneven brick sidewalks. Crossing Anderson Bridge the chill of the wind hits its peak. Billowing gusts whip down the Charles from the Atlantic, chilling to tears, and anyone crossing the construct stiff-leggedly because his joints feel frozen, wishes to hell he'd never dragged himself out of his humid sheets to face this arctic wasteland...
This is a misapprehension on the order of considering Picasso merely a Spanish painter, or Joyce a parochial Irish Catholic writer. The best British composers speak an international language-inflected, to be sure, by characteristic clipped accents and at times marked by a stiff-upper-lip emotional restraint-as surely as do the German Beethoven, the Italian Verdi, the Frenchman Debussy or the Russian Tchaikovsky: men who transcended the boundaries of their birth and made fellow countrymen out of the world's citizens...
...decades past, offering a suitably Messianic and inspirational figure to the jaded and cynical boys of the eighties. Brooks Whitehouse as Frank Mills, the leader of the band, and Dede Schmeiser as Donna Barona, his groupie girlfriend, on the other hand, fall a little short: Whitehouse a little stiff and stylized in his portrayal of an already implausible character, Schmeiser too broad and too brassy...
...stories he created an idyllic world, one of wealth and leisure, where no problem was so great that it could not be solved by some quick thinking and a touch of light-hearted deception. His books were magic elixers to the troubled souls of his readers. Like a few stiff drinks, but without the side-effects, a P.G. Wodehouse story could make even the most distressed reader forget about his problems for a while. And his public paid him back in kind: No sooner would one of his books hit the stands than it would become a bestseller...
...fall of 1980--minus many of the original players--the booters experienced their first frustrating year with a 14-7 season, placing third in both the Ivy and Eastern championships. The highly talented teams that had been forming during the booters' first two seasons now offered them a stiff challenge, forcing them to drop several of their key matches. The Crimson did go on, however, to place third in a national tournament in Colorado Springs--a result that restored confidence in their talents...