Word: struck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard senior was struck by a car late Sunday night near Leverett House...
...letters make fine reading, but I was particularly struck by your complaint (letter 2, page 27) of a persistent heavy feeling in the chest that can only be relieved by sighing. Ralph, this is a clue. You are not just in love, you are limerent. This is a brand-new word made up by a University of Bridgeport psychologist, Dorothy Tennov, in her new book on romance, Love and Limerence. If you haven't guessed it already, limerence is the ultimate, near obsessional form of romantic love...
...Rams were undefeated in exhibition games, but disaster struck once the regular season got under way. The Los Angeles roster resembled the casualty list from a 40-car freeway pileup: 18 of the 45-man squad missed all or part of the season. Quarterback Pat Haden, a Rhodes scholar, broke a finger; Fullback John Cappelletti missed the whole year because of a groin injury; Defensive Tackle Cody Jones sat it out with a torn achilles tendon...
...effect is that of watching a campaign that a MacArthur or a Rommel might have mounted with toy soldiers. The stakes are not high. The people are not emotionally engaging. And such pin-flares of love as do appear seem to have been struck from a wet match. Obsessed as Pinter is by rooms, the drawing room seems to make him a trifle uneasy. Betrayal is a kind of bittersweet Noël Coward comedy in which the people are brittle, and more laconic than witty...
...other man. Are you a variation of Jack the Ripper, who finally brings me love that I'm prevented from accepting - not by the knife but by old age?" She also tells Tynan that, in her rich experience, Englishmen made the best lovers. What more could a star-struck boy of 52 ask for? -R.Z. Sheppard