Word: bested
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...story of the meet for Harvard was Griffin, who won the 20-pound weight. Her throw of 55-ft, 4.25-in. bettered her previous school record by almost two feet. At the first meet of the year, she had already added a foot to her--and Harvard's--previous best...
...business of the best modern horror movies -- and Misery is definitely one of the best -- to convert such commonplace anxieties, smoothly and plausibly, into deliciously prolonged worst-case scenarios. Almost casually, we learn there was nothing accidental about Annie's being there to rescue Paul after his accident; she had been stalking him as he finished a new book at a neighboring resort. Gradually, it dawns on us that she is never going to surrender him to a hospital. She is going to keep him in her isolated house -- no phones, no visitors, just her special, suffocating brand...
...with edgy smarts, and their deadly game does something more than pit temporary weakness against sociopathic passion. It also places ironic literary intelligence in conflict with the whacked-out innocence of fandom, and has a smart subtext of class warfare about it too. The actors are supported by the best kind of writerly craft and directorial technique, the kind that refuses to call attention to itself, never gets caught straining for scares or laughs. Popular moviemaking -- elegantly economical, artlessly artful -- doesn't get much better than this...
...survey by Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco investment firm, sales of California's premium wines have increased an average of 19.6% a year over the past five years. At the peak of the scale, California's ultra-premiums command prices that come close to matching those of Europe's best. Diamond Creek's tannic, concentrated 1987 Lake Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon went on sale last year at $100 a bottle. The 75 cases were gone within days...
...That's the best line I've seen in a while," Vermont Coach Mike Gilligan said. "We didn't have anyone who could skate with them...