Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ewing first burst onto the Harvard basketball scene as an active, shot-blocking 6'10 sophomore as the first man off the bench to reinforce then-seniors Chris Grancio and Kyle Snowden. Ewing struggled at time to step into a leading role as an upperclassman, but after Fisher's illness forced him into the starting role Ewing played with aggression and intelligence...
...York, like the rest of basketball fans, forgave and forgot the lockout. In return, throughout the play-offs their team has exploited the general disorganization in the league. It's the Knicks' Sprewell-led bench (and Spree, who will never be nominated for Mr. Congeniality, has made it clear that he should start) that fooled the Heat and Hawks with their transition game and spastic, slashing offense...
Pawloski has worked on Tomassoni's staff since 1991 and is currently the chief recruiter. A fiery man behind the bench with strong affection for the school, Pawloski would also fit within the Harvard tradition...
...ends in the relative major, not the parallel major--which place it far outside the world of the salon. The virtues of his playing were many: sizzling arpeggios, perfect pedaling, nimble wrist octaves, barnburning virtuosity in the big contrary-motion sweeps, so much that he lifted himself off the bench. The ending, mostly reminiscent of the G minor Ballade, included a final two chords that were so well executed as to seem prophetic. The second half of the program was a Schumann sonata in which all of the details were in place. The F-sharp Minor sonata...
...public assistance in favor of empty hands that push such people into hidden corners and crevices. They don't meet the "standard" and they are in the way of our own individual pursuits of happiness. We ask, "Can you please make that homeless man move from the park bench? He's aesthetically displeasing...