Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such thrills are the stuff promoters' dreams are made of. The whole night, however, is a carefully orchestrated show and still not completely a sporting event. The NFL changes rules and hires cheer-leaders to make football more exciting, but the hype and showmanship of a motorsports event is unique...
...drinking rules remain easy to circumvent, according to one student, because "Many older students would be more than willing to buy the stuff...
...Vice President, Zaccaro says, he would remain in Queens and concentrate on his business, rather than move to Washington. Says he: "She does her thing and I do mine. If she wins, we'll work out something just as we have for the last six years. Same old stuff...
Sometimes menacing, often bleakly comic, always alarmingly precognitive, the visions of Writer Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) have their cinematic possibilities. The trouble is his movie is mostly banal, the stuff of arrested adolescence. It contains obsessively recurring images: woman as spider, devouring her mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small...
...Wrong Stuff is really two books. The first is simply Lee's recollections of his playing days, the games, the times in the clubhouse and the off-the-field carousing And the rest is a blistering attack on baseball management in general and the Red Sox organization in particular. Of the two the latter is much more effective...