Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--It was midway through the first period of the new season, and Harvard freshman right winger Gary Martin had his head down as he picked up a pass coming out of the Crimson zone. Just beyond the blue line waited Brown senior co-captain Kevin Lovitt; one imagines he was grinning evilly...
...nation, indeed the world, seemed ready for a heavenly break in the news, for a chance to contemplate an event above and beyond politics and oil, wars and revolutions. It took nearly 1½ hours for the spacecraft's first data about the moment of closest approach to reach earth. But at planetariums from Washington, B.C., to Portland, Ore., "near encounter" shows attracted overflow crowds. In Edinburg, Texas, students erected their own satellite antenna to hear NASA's special Saturn broadcasts...
...terms within the bounds of the U.S. legal system and the national honor. Describing the U.S. response, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, "It's comprehensive, it's thoughtful, it's positive. So, the question is whether they are convinced that that's the limit beyond which...
...instead of stretching to their parts, both have stretched the parts to accommodate themselves. Shohet has made Sonya, the most compassionate and heroic force in the play, a self-absorbed little bully, failing to realize that there is love in Sonya's reprimands or that her suffering goes way beyond her own unrequited love. Cornuelle doesn't help in the third-act confrontation, staging Sonya center stage, completely absorbed in her own sorrow, almost oblivious to the wrenching spectacle of her Uncle Vanya...
Landslide. Yes, landslide-stunning, startling, astounding, beyond the wildest dreams and nightmares of the contending camps, beyond the furthest ken of the armies of pollsters, pundits and political professionals. After all the thousands of miles, the millions of words and dollars, the campaign that in newspapers across the land on the very morning of Election Day was still headlined TOO CLOSE TO CALL turned out to be a landslide. The American voter had struck again. Half the election-watching parties in the nation were over before the guests arrived. The ponderous apparatus of the television networks' Election Night coverage...