Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard added another goal to give it an insurmountable 3-0 lead. Fowler fired a bullet past a motionless Clark, in a typical bing-bang corner play...
...wrong; not every NBA player should be allowed to compete for a spot on the team. Imagine hundreds of these guys migrating to some mammoth gym in the Midwest. Clusters of Kurt Rambises and Greg Kites would stand on the gym floor, vowing to bang and bruise the bigshots for the next few days...
...rationale is not simply the need to meet the demands of the American car market or harness the spirit of innovation. From the homogeneous vantage points of Japan and Germany, the exuberant free thinking seems to be a function of L.A.'s slam-bang Anglo-Afro-Latino-Asian ethnic mix -- cultural democracy by default. "The Southern California area is like a melting pot -- there are so many different races," says Mitsubishi vice president Satoru Tsujimoto. "From those different backgrounds, there are many different values. So there are many different designs." For companies acutely conscious of their need to sell cars...
...gave the impression of slowing the Soviet free fall precipitated by the Aug. 19 coup, the newly created bodies were ill defined and presented only a stopgap solution. It was impossible to predict how much of a counterforce they would exert against the centrifugal strains unleashed by the Big Bang of the failed coup. As it was, the first act of the State Council, a body made up of Gorbachev and the top officials of 10 republics, was to grant independence to the three Baltic republics. The move, which a mere month ago would have dazzled the world, last week...
...movies, these dog days are a time of atonement. Out go the slam-bang gonadal giants of June and July; in come a passel of fellows on their onerous journey toward becoming more sensitive souls. They take their cue from Harrison Ford, the selfish lawyer in Regarding Henry, who gets a shot in the head and suddenly feels so darned . . . human. But the newer films go a step farther. In Doc Hollywood and The Doctor, the ones in need of redemption are good guys...