Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, the Crimson tied the SMU Mustangs, which were ranked No. 11 last year, four-and-four, sweeping the doubles but taking only one of five singles matches. Senior co-captain Joe Green paired up with junior Andrew Styperek to defeat Gerard Mulas and Genius Chidzikwe 8-6 at No. 1 doubles. Freshman Dave Lingman, playing in his first intercollegiate match, teamed with sophomore William Lee to beat Ryan Mauck and Keith Orie 8-4, and the sweep was completed by juniors Mike Rich and Anthony Barker, who defeated Alexis Rudzinski and Lee Oporto 8-5 at No. 3 doubles...
...which its makers sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1.1 million, went on to become the feel-scared (or -shafted) movie of the summer and to earn nearly $140 million at the domestic box office. By this yardstick, Happy, Texas, which Miramax Films picked up for about $6 million, should sweep the Oscars and outgross Titanic...
...very skeptical when a studio concentrates its publicity efforts on the "grandeur" of one of its projects. We aren't told about the quality of the acting performances or the superb writing of the script. No, all the information disseminated is that Anna is epic in it's sweep and scope. The directing may be poor and sloppy, but the five thousand costumes built from scratch look really, really nice. The acting may be flat and wooden, but the studio employed enough elephants and horses for a single shot of the mile long royal procession. The plot may be incoherent...
...Have you ever thought of what a contradiction we are?" he asked the audience. "We can probe the deepest secrets of the universe, but racism, injustice and violence sweep our world...
...Slim Redskins -1 over JETS: The canker on L.I. Slim?s return to his winning ways last week remains those floundering Jets. So he?s turning against the Tuna and going with the red-hot Redskins in a New York sweep. And that Rick Mirer was so good at Notre Dame...