Word: beater
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's victory over Dartmouth marks the Crimson's 15th consecutive home win. The last time Harvard dropped a contest at Lavietes Pavilion was a 65-64 loss on a buzzer beater to Siena on November...
Matt Drudge, the Liz Smith of cyberspace, reported in his E-mail dispatch last week that a White House aide is a wife beater. Bad news for the Drudgester: he now says the story, which initially went out to more than 60,000 readers, is untrue. So he retracted it and apologized...
...comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda's mean and giddy inventiveness, and the directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity...
...identified with my voice and my style. People will get confused." While band member Chris Frantz says he's surprised by Byrne's action, Byrne says it's the culmination of a feud that began when the band broke up, a process that was "like being with a wife beater who won't divorce...
Losing five of their six games down the stretch has turned a potential 15-1 national powerhouse team into a 9-6 (2-1 Ivy) team clawing their way toward an NCAA berth. However, their 81-79 buzzer-beater over New Hampshire suggests that their difficulties are finally over and the battle for an Ivy League title is about to swing into full force...