Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keaton excels at this type of frenzied, over-the-top comedy, and he's at his best when two or three of his manifestations volley the dialogue back and forth between them. Unfortunately, this does leave McDowell somewhat out of the loop; she's given the thankless role of the confused wife, struggling, crying and finally running away while Doug clumsily deals with his strange identity crisis...
...events of the years that followed, and their effect on the boys, leave Charles and Diana with plenty to answer for. Life in a fishbowl is hard on anyone; for a child it is also very confusing. Wills has had to put up with volley after volley of mortifying revelations shouted from the headlines--the tabloids breaking the news, the "respectable" papers and TV reporting on the resulting scandal. Dad wants to be a tampon, the better to be close to his mistress. Mum was having an affair with that young riding instructor, who also taught Wills...
...offenses real and imagined. Last week the whining became too much for Suck, a trendy online journal, which posted a spirited complaint about HotWired's "constant needling" and noted that rival bashing swapped places only with "back patting" on HotWired's Web pages. Look for a return volley on HotWired this week. In another online mud fight, ESPNET SportsZone unleashed a filtering program designed to keep employees of rival SportsLine USA out of its site (which is open to everyone else on the planet). Maybe it's time...
...handed backhands and forehands kept the other women cornered. The only time she did not look particularly sharp was in the first set of her quarterfinal match with talented Czech Jana Novotna, but Seles erased two set points with a laser return of service and a dazzling forehand volley. "Well, I was just so mad at myself," she said of the first shot, "I just, wow, hit it." Reminded of the second shot, she said, "Very nice. Very good point. That one also. Yes, yes, yes, forgot that one." Peter Balestieri, the court stenographer employed by the U.S. Tennis Association...
...knew from down the hall was just leaving; he told me he'd left a few beers in the fridge after a party, and I was welcome to them. I sat and listened. The cold Kokanee Lager cooed to me lovingly, while legions of health teachers screamed back a volley of catcalls. "Don't drink alone!" they shrieked. I didn...