Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their down-below parts, ready for their lonely bit of action." The narrator of this slangy, tangy first novel from Britain has seen it all. Or so he thinks, until the Eagle falls into the hands of managers from the head office, who express concern for their "customer-stroke-guests" while remaining oblivious to the shenanigans under their noses. Throw in a racist thug, some lovable Cockneys and Rastafarians, and a whiff of violence, and you've got a small bomb just waiting to explode. The plot here is incidental; what takes center stage is the driving, driven narrative voice...
...shootout, each team had five penalty strokes to score as many goals as they could. Huskies' senior defender Hilary McHugh, who leads the team with 13 goals, sealed the victory for Northeastern by scoring their fifth goal in the shootout after Crimson co-captain Tara LaSovage converted Harvard's fourth penalty stroke on the Crimson's last shot...
Freshman midfielder Eliza Dick missed her penalty stroke for Harvard after co-captain Judy Collins, junior back Katie Schoolwerth and sophomore forward Jennifer Crusius were successful in their attempts...
...provide Durang with endless amounts of comic fuel. Karen MacDonald (playing Margaret Brennan, Bette's mother) stomps across the stage as a wildly exaggerated version of an over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene...
...starting line, the Crimson jumped out to a fast 38 strokes-per-minute pace and was able to maintain a steady 34-stroke pace throughout...