Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson played its best game ever, according to Freed. Berkeley led by only two goals after one period. And the margin grew no larger than five points until the final quarter, when Harvard finally fell to the Bears superior depth...
...aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...
...employment problems began on the night in 1978 when she accepted an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for Julia. As militant Jewish groups picketed outside to denounce a pro-Palestinian documentary film she had financed by selling her house in Britain, Redgrave injudiciously responded in a speech telecast worldwide. In words aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth...
...Redgrave gave a performance many still consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan!, competing with her sister, who was nominated for Georgy Girl. (They lost to Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...painters had batting records, that of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, court painter to Philip IV of Spain, would be perfect. Not only did he paint the best official portrait of the 17th century -- the head of the wary, coarse, cunning old Pope Innocent X, in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili collection in Rome -- but he also made what is perhaps the greatest nonmythical, secular painting in all art history: Las Meninas, in the Prado. Neither is in the wonderful show of 38 paintings by Velazquez, about half lent by the Prado, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum...