Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Crimson's 7-3 loss at Princeton earlier this season, the Harvard gridders trooped back to the visitors' locker room, dripping wet and miserable. The defeat set Harvard's Ivy record back to 2-2, and the injury-ridden squad had experienced the ultimate in frustration: dominating the Tigers all day but falling just short...
...Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens of different takes. Frankie will be remembered as the wet blanket at the Beach Party movies; Fabian, in a more enlightened time, may be lauded as an unsung pioneer of aleatory music...
...undefeated, unscored upon South House football squad became a scored-upon but still unbeaten team yesterday, riding two long scoring plays to a wet 12-6 victory over Kirkland...
...light wet snow fell on Cuyahoga County, Ohio, early this October morning, long before the clouds obscured the sunrise, and the recently patched asphalt on Highway 90 east is, as the signs promise, "slippery when wet." Nothing more than a small white-on-green sign that the heavy winds bent out of shape announces your arrival in the county of Lorain...
Hutton's camera catches all the nuances and real-life minutiae of his characters and settings, from Delaney's pursing of lips and slight cocking of head to the "Wet Paint" sign in the precinct house, to the pink-jacked, clothespin-nosed punk rocker being busted for solicitation. Similarly, the dialogue lends a certain sardonic grittiness to The First Deadly...