It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Not altogether a successful play, `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in a lesser work might be crippling.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Further, any successful steal on a play resulting in a wild pitch, passed ball, or balk would no longer be credited as a steal, even if the runner had started to steal before the play.

Its characteristically " cute " Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it successful as an arcade title and spawned several sequels and ports to home gaming systems.

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

They play a game and win ( successful shared valent event ).

His next play, Belisario, written in 1734, was more successful, though of its success he afterward professed himself ashamed.

However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

* Following a touchdown and convert attempt ( successful or not ), play resumes with the scoring team kicking off from its own 35-yard line ( 45-yard line in amateur leagues ).

A successful college hockey coach, Harkness tried to force his two-way style of play on a veteran Red Wings team resistant to change.

The city's most successful non-professional team are the Edinburgh Wolves who currently play at Meadowbank Stadium.

Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin.

In 1940, Le Bel Indifférent, Cocteau's play written for and starring Édith Piaf, was enormously successful.

Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs.

The play was adapted into a successful movie in 1945, and a musical ( High Spirits ) in 1963, besides enjoying multiple adaptations to radio.

All three teams brought new styles of play, fitness levels and tactics, and were far more successful than critics had expected.

It was one of the most successful pop singles of its time, despite exceeding the then standard length for radio play.

Curry & Chips set out to satirize racist attitudes in Britain in a similar vein to Speight's earlier creation, the hugely successful Till Death Us Do Part, with Milligan ' blacking up ' to play Kevin O ' Grady, a half-Pakistani / half-Irish factory worker.

But on the ensuing drive, the Steelers put the game out of reach with a 66 yard, 11 play scoring drive that took 6: 47 off the clock and featured three successful third down conversions.

Vinatieri's game-winning kick was successful, marking the first time in Super Bowl history that a game was won by a score on the final play.

Beaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello.

In 1966, the play was made into the successful film A Man for All Seasons directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted for the screen by the playwright himself, and starring Paul Scofield in an Oscar-winning performance.

Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged as an Off-Broadway musical in 1986, directed by Gary Sinise, in a successful run at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater.

Although the Fighting Fantasy titles had successful sales the increasing dominance of video games in the 1990s caused a gradual decline.

Filipović has been successful in both K-1 and Pride Fighting Championships.

Boyd inspired the Light Weight Fighter Project that produced the successful F-16 Fighting Falcon and F / A-18 Hornet, which are still in use by the United States and several other military powers into the 21st century.

In line with Mayer's policy of more aggressive commercialisation of the Penguin brand Lacey reduced the number of Puffin imprints, consolidated popular titles under the Puffin Classics rubric and inaugurated the successful interactive gamebook series Fighting Fantasy.

Several of the combatants are successful mixed martial artists from the Ultimate Fighting Championship, including Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, and Randy Couture.

The first three titles in the series, the original title, Champion Edition, and Hyper Fighting edition were all developed on CPS-1 and highly successful.

In 2001, because of his Japanese Pro-wrestling career Frye was still a successful celebrity in Japan, Pride Fighting Championships signed The Predator to a multi fight contract.

Unlike its predecessor which received some decent reviews, Fighting Force 2 was not very successful, and received very low ratings from most well known gaming publications.

In his most popular serial, Fighting Blood, O ' Hara was cast as a boxer ; A role well-suited to O ' Hara, who in his free time was a boxing afficienado and moderately successful in the amateur lightweight division of the sport.

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Games Workshop, 1983 )-An internationally successful fantasy miniature wargame.

Final Fantasy IX was commercially successful, selling 5. 30 million units worldwide as of March 31, 2003.

Final Fantasy Chronicles was commercially and critically successful, becoming the top selling PlayStation title for two weeks, and scoring an average of 89 % in Metacritic's aggregate, a review tallying website.

The most successful games after Ultima Online have been EverQuest ( released in March 1999 ), Asheron's Call ( released in November 1999 ), Dark Age of Camelot ( released in October 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( released in May 2002 ), World of Warcraft ( released in November 2004 ).

Fantasy also released the highly successful Chronicle, Vol.

Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart ( Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975 ) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (# 23, 1972 ).

Producer Spelling, already well known for his successful ABC series, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Vega $, and Hart to Hart, took on Richard and Esther Shapiro's vision of a rich and powerful family who " lived and sinned " in a 48-room Denver mansion.

Under Sakaguchi's watchful eye, Final Fantasy developed into a successful franchise, spanning from stand alone stories to spin-offs to direct sequels.

Chupa Chups ran an extremely successful promotion featuring the Spice Girls with their Fantasy Ball Lollipops and Crazy Dips in 1997 and 1998.

Developed by Visual Works and Square Enix, Advent Children is part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series, which is based in the world and continuity of the highly successful 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII.

Fantasy Zone proved to be very successful in Japanese arcades, helping to give rise to the popular System 16 arcade board.

These pieces and nine new arrangements appeared in the highly successful orchestral album Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec Final Fantasy VIII.

Her third studio album Fantasy Ride, released in 2009, was considerably less successful than Ciara's first two albums.

" Fantasy " spent 23 weeks in the top 40 and was successful on other Billboard formats, including the R & B and dance charts.

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