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...bottom of the eighth, but Wambach threw out the potential tying run with a perfect throw to Co-Captain and catcher Nancy Prior. Prior collided with the Bear runner and remarkably held onto the ball. The game was effectively over. Harvard once again had pulled out a nail-biter...
...second monologue is delivered by Clark, and it's a real wall-biter. Up and down she babbles and raves, running the gamut of emotions from unhappiness to depression. Granted, Clark's role is the least interesting and worst written of the three, providing no clue as to what appeal a law student could find in an alcoholic charlatan cursed with an erratic mystical power. Still, Clark seems unable to penetrate the surface level of overwrought words and emotions, and as I was sitting on a comfy mattress, the only thing keeping my snoozometer above the critical zone was Clark...
...said, "these people wouldn't even have sat down together." The obstacles to consensus may have been best illustrated at one contentious panel when the moderator tried to wrap things up by saying that at least everyone agreed on the need for honesty in therapy. Szasz, ever the ankle biter at conventions, interrupted to declare that many patients want dishonesty, and the therapeutic business ought to provide...
This year, with Harvard still tired from its Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) opener against a weak Navy team, and the Lions psyched up and shaved down, the meet was the nail-biter that had been promised...
...verb that means to become unusable, as in "the monitor gronked"), gweep (one who spends unusually long periods of time hacking), cuspy (anything that is exceptionally good or performs its functions exceptionally well), dink (to modify in some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word that describes automobile traffic paralyzed both ways through...