Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speculations about his mother's bed are beside the point. Her we have Sir Norman, fantastically wealthy, illegitimate, weak, gullible, and queer. He is victimized as a matter of course. His first tormentor, his mother aside, is a nightclub singer named Lily Vail who gets him to marry her so that she can divorce him, thereby gaining fame via scandal and fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that...
Quarterback Pete Doherty, filling in for the injured Brian Dowling, performed well against the weak opposition, but unless Dowling returns to the lineup in the next week or two, Yale may not be quite the caliber of the other undefeated Ivy teams...
Twice during the game, once under quarterback Rick Ballentine and once under sub Bill Domres, Columbia moved the ball right up the field, but otherwise the Lions were contained soundly. The only question is, how good is Ballentine and the whole Columbia offense. The one big day against admittedly weak Princeton may not be representative...
...villain was Mom and, by extension, women in general. From novels to movies and musicals, the case history dominated the scene. Sooner or later there had to be a flashback to some childhood trauma, and its explanation (unloving mother, weak father, hateful sibling, stolen Teddy bear) became as de rigueur as the revelation scene at the end of a detective novel in which the mastermind explains who done...
Honolulu police rounded up five suspects, and although Thalia at first doubted that she could recognize her attackers, she soon identified all five. In fact, the author notes, her memory improved steadily as the time approached for the trial. Even so, the prosecution's case was weak. The suspects' alibis pretty much ruled them out as Thalia's assailants, and after 97 hours of deliberation, the jury pronounced itself unable to agree on a verdict...