Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie whose dramatis personae include a lovable old coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons...
...least logically--to criticize the University for directly mishandling his money. The Harvard Management Company points to its extremely impressive and respected track record and the sizable University endowment--well over $1.7 billion--that it proffers as evidence that Harvard is acting as wisely as it can. The "Every Tub On Its Own Botton" system, a pet phrase the Office of Budgets uses to connote Harvard's decentralized budget management, has functioned to insure informed budget planning and to discourage deficit spending. And though it might seem like the University is rolling in money, the tidy sums it has banked...
...Stanford University Band also marched before its "Baby Float," a Cadillac dragging red-spattered dolls and a "California Hedonism" display, two soakers in a hot tub...
...nine months of the year, they make their home in hotels, Mariana, who severely curtailed her competitive career after a frantic year of tournaments in separate cities, washes their tennis whites in the tub. If the couple goes out to dine, they will be swamped by autograph seekers (and often not presented with a check), so they tend to subsist on room service. Says Mariana: "We get up and order breakfast from room service. Then we practice, come back to the hotel and order room service. Then Bjorn practices again, if he's not playing a match, and then...
...some favorite enimies have returned to brighten up this unhappy spring. There's Luke Skywalker, that gee whiz kid from Tatooine, and there's Princess Leia, that cosmic mankiller. There are Han Solo and his furry 8-ft. friend Chewbacca trying to get their beat-up old tub, the Millennium Falcon, to make the jump into hyperspace. And back, of course, are the Laurel and Hardy of the robot set, Artoo Detoo...