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...between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
...collegiate croquet, the players try to complete two rotations of the six-wicket, 84- by 105-ft. course within a specified time limit. Players compete alone or in two-person teams...
Marlyn M. Lewis, assistant dean of the College and the GSA's administration liaison, said last night that although Pattullo was probably expressing a personal opinion, his use of his title created a "sticky wicket...
Mark Bingham then croqueted one through first-baseman Vic Kurylak's wicket, tallying Kelley...
...GROVE PRESS offers up this plump, accessible volume to the generous consideration of literary skimmers who have shied away from the deepening mire of Beckett study. Interest in Beckett is at once so sticky a wicket to most people that they turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of his works, and at the same time so enchantingly open to interpreters that the PMLA index mushrooms yearly with new entries under his name. The flood of criticism is growing so rapidly that Richard Seaver estimates in his introduction it will surpass in bulk by the year 2000 the secondary work...