Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...
...Playing without Jackson made it really sweet," Fish said. "This is one of those memorable victories the guys will never forget...
...this is what it feels like." Senior Bill Cleary of Auburndale. Mass, said "It's only the consolation, but hell they're the fourth-ranked team in the country. It's awful sweet to beat them...
...This caused some resistance among the others. They were chafing against the autocracy of a young man whose Arcadian visions of a mythic America (Green River, Proud Mary) were as ample and unsentimental as his urban cameos (Down on the Corner), his musical allegories (Travelin' Band), his raunchy rockers (Sweet Hitch-Hiker) and his heartsick love songs (Wrote a Song for Everyone...
...becoming a sport, impressive and sometimes exciting. Sadder still, it is sometimes as inarticulate as a professional athlete. It is no longer the rhetoric of the body, the nuanced expression of the person in a physical poem. Even the truly great dancing shown from West Side Story and Sweet Charity lacks the stamp of personality which characterizes the dancing of Kelly and Astaire...