Word: strung
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...manpower, contracting idiocy .. . Hell, I think there's a kind of swamp of $10 to $20 to $30 billion worth of waste that can be ferreted out if you really push hard. [But the Pentagon] got a blank check . . .they got so goddamned greedy that they got themselves strung way out there on a limb...
...Ferrante's overtime goal ice the Ivy Championship game against Brown, and her goal in the 70th minute of the Eastern semifinal against UMass spark the Harvard comeback, calls her "a true competitor." Boyfriend Charlie Corry, adversary in innumerable crossword puzzles and squash games goes as far as "high strung, highly energetic...
...creed wholeheartedly, quoting the above statistics in its program notes and approaching the play with an appetite for "deep meanings" that recalls the legend of the first-time viewer who exclaimed, "I don't know what everyone sees in this play--it's just a lot of cliched quotes strung together." A weighty interpretation is often provocative, even moving. But (the purist cries desperately), there must be a few subtleties of psychology or modernity that even Hamlet does not contain. And under the weight of speculation and experiment heaped on it by director Bill Cain, even Hamlet creaks...
...daughter. When the scenes roll around in which Joan is nice to her daughter, we are only further confused. The relationship between Christina and Joan is shown through a series of vignettes which take place over a span of 30 years, but these scenes are only loosely strung together. They argue here, they argue there, time passes and no conclusions are reached. Mommie Dearest, while attempting to pass itself off as a serious documentary, is little more than a limp soap opera...
...newspaper's role to assess blame for the debacle surrounding the Rolling Stones' near miss with Boston--the off-on-off-on-off-on-maybe-later concert that wavered mystically between reality and myth and ended finally in limbo. There is enough blame for everyone to share, and the strung-along and ultimately shut-out Stones fans in this area had no trouble allotting...