Word: face-off
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...along with all this Yakuza lore is not a wieldy thing either. It has to do mostly with layers of intrigue and betrayal that end when Mitchum and a single ally (the engagingly somber Takakura Ken) take on what looks like the entire criminal population of Tokyo. This face-off makes for a bloody and modestly spectacular finale, but it is long in coming...
...imagine my life changing. The things I am interested in are things that money can't buy," said Julie Roy, 36, a department-store clerk who had just been awarded $350,000 by a Manhattan court. For nine days Roy was in a courtroom face-off with Psychiatrist and Cosmopolitan Columnist Renatus Hartogs, 66, who, she claimed, had mixed professional advice with sexual advances (TIME, March 24). Sexual intercourse with the good doctor, claimed Roy, had only produced severe depression and two involuntary stretches in a New York psychiatric ward. Last week a six-member jury awarded...
...only bright spot in the game was the Harvard power play. In the Beanpot finale, B.U. effectively stifled Harvard's man-advantage situations by favoring the Crimson corner man. Cleary's strategy has a man at the face-off circle hash marks ready to take the pass from the point...
Junior Bill Weber gave the Big Red a 2-0 lead, scoring on a close in rebound at 8-56 and then tallying on a backhander 35 seconds later from midway between the crease corner and the right face-off circle...
Some three minutes after that, Bolduc shoots off a dedicated Clarkson defender and swooped in Terry O'Reilly-style to light the lamp once again. Bolduc then took the ensuing face-off from center ice six seconds later and scored on a slap that for the hat trick...