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...second period—the third of the contest—seemingly crippled Quinnipiac’s starting goalie, Bud Fisher, and opened the floodgates for a torrent of Crimson goals. The Bobcats twice replaced their goalie throughout the course of the game, but each switch was to little avail??none could provide the solid defensive backup Quinnipiac’s offense so desperately needed...
...pernicious principle that so long as one pays an exorbitant amount of money as a tip, one can be as much of an asshole as one wishes. And so it happens that our table is beseeched half a dozen times to quiet ourselves. The pleading is to no avail??“they’re getting their money” someone says of the wait staff who have asked us to show restraint. And besides, I’m told, the creation of sake bombs, whereby shots of the rice wine are precariously situated between chopsticks running...
...late-night roamer on Boston’s Putnam Avenue was pushed by an unknown assailant who then abruptly ran away last Saturday. The victim approached a HUPD officer and alerted him or her to the walk-by pusher. Police searched the area but to no avail??the shove-and-run perpetrator was nowhere to be found...
...Eric Brockovich (Julia Roberts) who takes the American legal system by the scruff of its neck, moralizes it, defeats a corrupt and malicious business conglomerate and makes no small fortune for herself and others. At the film’s start, Brockovich is combing the classifieds to no particular avail??an image that becomes an important visual trope. Then, after incurring debilitating injuries from a car accident, Brockovich seeks the legal expertise of small claims attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finny), who fails her outright. Holding Masry personally responsible for her condition, Brockovich filibusters her way into a clerical...
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