Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared mentally for the Games by following his father's wishes and holing up in a desert cave for 40 days. No one on Bjelašnica had a more intimate knowledge of scorpions. "When I got here, I expected a lot more 'Look at him' stuff from the others. But instead they've all been helping me. 'Look out for this bump.' 'Make sure you get low there.' " El Reedy was sent off last in the downhill. "They are worried about a crackup from behind," he smiled. He wiped out more...
...Such stuff is harder to pull off than sex-and-money jokes, and Act I occasionally betrays the strain. Random Star Trek and sportscasting segments come across more like The Groove Tube than pastiche; gags spliced in from other humorists without apparent reason--including Tom Lehrer's "Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya" and Monty Python's "No! No singing!"--seem like mere cribs...
...stayed at the marathon long enough to cut the starting ribbon and watch a group of Jefferson Park break dancers do their stuff...
...etched in furniture, stairways and backyards. New paint sometimes glamorizes the houses too much. The home had not been "quite so shiny" when he lived in it, Reagan confessed. In the end, the memories, evoked by a fragment of wallpaper or a warm corner in the kitchen, are the stuff of such museums...
Because of this strategy. America only cared about one of many, many aspects of the Olympics: its hockey team. If we had concerned ourselves with more, we'd now be watching the stuff on television...