Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hartford forced the Crimson into a shooting that can only be described as ugly. In the first half, Harvard shot a dismal .292 from the field, although the Crimson fared better from international waters, sinking three of six shots from behind the arc...
...first win in seven games, Harvard picked up a 54-51 victory last night over the Bulldogs. The Crimson shot only 31 percent in the second half and went 1-for-15 from beyond the three-point arc for the game. It was a veritable sub-par performance, but, nevertheless...
...really caught fire against Cornell. The Davenport, Iowa native burned the Big Red (she sure did make 'em bleed) for a season-high 31 points. And Maher asserted her dominance in the Ivy League and the country from behind the arc. She hit five of the six treys she put up and knocked down all 10 of her freethrows to boot...
...Shannon Biondi, a headstrong three-year-old and a member of what some French sociologists call La Generation MacDo, saw a commercial for "McCopters," she dragged her mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says. "We avoid the neighborhood drunk, and the toilets are clean." Nearby, medical student Christophe Icard, 21, converses with a companion over chocolate ice cream. Cafes are "expensive...
...trademark elliptical phrases are also far more in evidence on this album, with oblique allusions in such lines as "Caligula would have blushed" ("Heaven Knows") and "I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt ("Bigmouth Strikes Again...