Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meant to be sexy. Bodies are to be decorated and adorned and, yes, even treated as objects, for only by individualizing each physical unit do you begin to get at the human potential it possesses. The argument is a refreshing one, particularly after the semi-Puritanical strain that infects certain women liberationists, though hardly the platitude on which one can slide home...
Particularly within the clique, the jurors sought release from the trial's strain through childish high jinks. Sheely and Sisto were first and second bananas. With unfettered glee, they short-sheeted beds, banged on walls, and placed a tape recording of reveille set to go off at 4 a.m. under a court deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador...
...Crimson's strength has clearly been its depth. Coach Bruce Munro is rotating four midfields, and in fact, the fourth one has outscored all the others with five goals. The first three have two each. On defense, Munro is using six men to ease the strain on injured starters, Don Gogel and Charlie Kittredge...
...home in Palo Alto, Calif., working out with his Santa Clara teammates. Before leaving, Mitchell spent the toughest three weeks of his swimming career training at the IAB. The strain resulted not only from the long workouts but from practicing alone...
Director Robert Wise and his quartet are so expert at sustaining suspense that they almost disguise The Andromeda Strain's great pretense. Despite its trappings, the plot employs nothing but the conventional weaponry of the grade-B thriller. Andromeda strains for significance and emerges as very modest entertainment. Still, in its darker moments, like THX 1138, it does a thorough job of belittling science as savior...