Word: usual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imrie's feat was even more impressive in that he was wrestling in the heavy-weight class instead of in his usual 191-pound spot. Imrie weighed in at the last moment 1/4-pound overweight because he did not have time to visit the nearest bathroom...
...section on Existential Psychology. The section agreed that the problem was that one had to relate himself to the dog's full existence. For example in the paper training of the dog, they said that it wasn't enough to expect the dog to be behaviorized by the "usual" pattern of threats and rewards. We should make ourselves aware of the dog's entire situation, and then set it up so that his doing it on the paper is consonant with his existence as he knew...
...book? "It is an attempt," he told Japanese correspondents, "at helping to enhance understanding about Japanese among foreigners." Kawasaki's sort of understanding, however, was not considered desirable by the Tokyo government. Last week Kawasaki was on his way home to begin his retirement somewhat earlier than usual. Would he live in Tokyo? Probably not, since he also observed in his book that "it is one of the ugliest and most disorderly capitals of the world...
...casting his net will soon stand in New York's Lincoln Center just across from the Metropolitan Opera House. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Shrady does secular commissions as well, but admits "I have a special feeling for religious art." He received only $28,000, well below his usual fee, for the Nazareth doors-but they may remain on public display a lot longer than some of his other works. One Israeli architect estimates that the new basilica ought to last at least 1,000 years...
...chew up every piece of scenery in sight. Exhuming his Oscar-winning sorghum accent from In the Heat of the Night, he gets more syllables out of a conjunction than most other actors could from Hamlet's second soliloquy. Steiger's performance, which is well below his usual high standard, sadly lacks the quality of magic that separates simple fantasy from a waking nightmare...