Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman defenseman Jim Trainor opened the second period with a weak, bouncing slapper from the right point that startled everyone, especially Milner, when it skipped into the net at 1:23. Phelps Swift racked the count up another goal at 2:32, and O'Donoghue embarrassed Milner again, when his shot slid under the PC goaltender's stick and between his legs...
...Harvard Fencing team sharpened its skills in preparation for a tough February schedule by slicing through a weak Dartmouth squad on Saturday afternoon...
...knows for sure exactly what the total damages will come to. If certain floors prove to be too weak in the damaged rooms, then they will have to be replaced, substantially jacking up the costs. Other personal costs have not been tabulated...
...with the merely unintelligible--mars Marisa Berenson's Countess of Lyndon. Perhaps Kubrick wanted her to look like those enigmatic Tuscan profiles her great uncle used to sell to Boston brahmins. She falls in love with Barry, marries him, remains statuesque but apathetic, and finally becomes religious. She is weak, and as such the audience tends to sympathize with her. But it is unclear whether Barry treats her rightly or wrongly. We see nothing of their courtship. We see little of their relations in marriage. We just don't know...
...Kesey's book the reader was bludgeoned into taking McMurphy's side because the asylum doctors were insufferable authority-figures intent on sadistically enforcing their will on a group of harmless human beings too weak to resist them. The facts are changed in the movie, though you're still expected to side with McMurphy. The clinic seems relatively well-run, with no sadism apparent. Dr. Spivey, played by a real asylum shrink, is rather like a Harvard administrator in his comfortable chumminess, generous desire to do good and general inability to see how to do it. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher...