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...Hobey Baker winner's shot with under seven minutes left gave the national team its narrowest margin of victory over a college team this year...
...sarong songs for Dorothy Lamour. When collaborating, Loesser usually devised the lyric first, along with a "dummy tune" to suggest tempo and rhythm. Jimmy McHugh could compose a long, languid melodic line for Let's Get Lost because Loesser had compressed the intensity of new passion into the narrowest meter: "Let's defrost/ In a romantic mist./ Let's get crossed/ Off everybody's list...
...understanding that he would be able to tighten the proposed investment loophole. It appeared that some Democrats would even be willing to vote for the package in the absence of a Republican majority. Predictions seeped out of the Speaker's office that supporters would probably prevail by the narrowest of margins. If the nose counters could not forecast the critical number -- 218 -- they would delay the showdown until Friday. Yet many members went to the floor still undecided, worrying about November...
...blockbuster, then spurning it for next week's thrill machine. Why? Because, with minor variations, each film is the same film; each is a sequel to the others. They offer the same kinds of villains (terrorists and corporate thugs), the same spectacular stuntmanship, the same jolts within the narrowest band of Hollywood entertainment. They are fables about little boys with big toys. Feel-good is not the feeling; these are workout pictures that, taken in large doses, wear the moviegoer out. Viewers don't get massaged, they get rolfed. And because the films finally blur together, none may have...
...aims. Professional publicity experts have made a multibillion- dollar industry out of copping column inches and airtime for everything / from smokers' rights and rap records to haute couture and the Trump bust-up. And the White House has raised press manipulation to a virtual art form, often for the narrowest political motives. The Reagan Administration, led by the Great Persuader himself, was notorious for its spin control. Last week the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based watchdog group, issued a report detailing nearly 100 instances of news orchestration, press restrictions and disinformation by the Bush Administration...