Word: raining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Then, to make His point completely clear to the still inspired Crimson squad, He made it rain. For eight minutes, it poured on the Harvard soccer team, washing away an impressive ball-control offense, and flooding chances for a conference title...
...rain-soaked turf of Memorial Field, Big Green quarterback Jeff Kemp put on a first-half show the likes of which Ivy League audiences rarely see. By halftime, the senior had completed 11 of 17 passes for 160 yards, two touchdowns, and a 17-3 lead--the beginning of the 30-12 rout that would end Harvard's sixgame winning streak...
Harvard tallied five tries and dominated throughout the game on the way to a 32-0 rout of the Big Green team of students and alumni in Saturday morning's rain at Sachem Field. In an attempt to insure victory, at least four Dartmouth graduates substituted for regular starters with less experience. Leading scorer Charlie Bott said, "Their plan backfired. They were talented individually, but did not play well as a team. When they fell behind, they fell apart...
...Then the rain came... and kept coming. In virtual monsoon conditions, Montgomery tallied his second try by kicking the ball through the sliding defenders and over the endline, and pouncing...
Throughout the album, as on the two before, several basic styles merge--a sea-chanty-like instrumental called "Lucky" precedes "Rain," which kicks off with a vintage Nashville feel. Then "I'm an Automobile" features a hard rock thump and a lighthearted come-on called "Schoolgirl" arrives with a skipping, folksy tempo. True to the ways established on the first two LPs, Forbert's melodies are catchy and his lyrics hang around to provoke rethinking. The songs not so much demand attention as engage it, sidling up to a listener's imagination with payloads of humor, observation and, sometimes, frustration...