Word: saving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Crimson forward Rob Burns let a wrist shot fly from the circle to Gaudet's right. The Big Green netminder made the save somewhere in his pads, losing sight of the puck for a few moments, unsure whether he had it. When he saw that he did, he looked to the roof of Bright Center as if to express his thanks. But last night Bob Gaudet didn't need any divine help. All he needed was a glove and a stick...
With 1:47 on the clock, Crimson coach Bill Cleary pulled goalie Wade Lau, but even six skaters couldn't turn the trick. Gaudet came up with one more tough save, on a Mark Fusco slapshot with about a minute...
...place once so feared, Ellis Island has a surprisingly welcoming air today, though most of its 35 buildings have badly deteriorated from decades of neglect and vandalism. It would take an estimated $150 million to save them all. "It sure looked better then," admits Sophie. The low-slung main building of warm red brick with limestone trim has large paned windows to let in air and light. Trees and lawns sweep to the gently lapping waters of the harbor. But at the time, immigrants like Sophie did not notice such things. They simply felt lost, especially in the great registry...
...somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...feel proud of being different, but popular enough so the risk of isolation is precluded by cheering crowds confident of victory." Kundera's men find the messianic earnestness of an orgy either frightening or funny. They do not believe that indiscriminate sex or any other contemporary anodyne will save them. They live perilously close to what Kundera calls "the border," the psychological line "beyond which everything loses meaning: love convictions, faith, history...