Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rush of penalty corners in the final minutes gave the Crimson the opportunity to tie the contest, but netminder Pam Smith never yielded, becoming only the third goaltender this season to blank the Harvard attack...
...NOTEBOOK The win levels the Crimson's Ivy League mark at 1-1, with a less in-spring overall record of 2-4-0...Goalkeeper Phil Coogan came through with two point-blank saves that kept Harvard in the lead at crucial moments in the match...The booters travel to Hanover next Saturday to face Dartmouth. The Big Green always get particularly motivated to play against Harvard, and the matches have usually been more physical than skillful...
...television, its electrical cord trailing in the dirt like a useless tail, its great eye blank in the midday sun, was sitting in the center of the playground. In a semicircle around it stood a dozen four-year-olds, their eyes glazed, staring intently at the dark screen. Three adults emerged from the adjacent schoolhouse and lifted the set into the back of a station wagon. As the car pulled away, several of the children rushed to the wire fence, pushed their outstretched hands through the loops, and cried plaintively: "Goodbye, Mr. TV. Goodbye...
...Blank's documentary, Burden of Dreams, which opened last Friday at the newly renovated Brattle theater, captures Herzog and his crew fighting both to create a movie and retain their health and sanity while entrenched in the primitive jungle. Beware of dismissing this movie merely because it falls into the category of "documentary." It is a fascinating portrait of a director straddling the border between sanity and the depths beyond, while challenging himself and nature through the jungle...
...BLANK, however, artfully presents much more in Burden of Dreams than merely Herzog's warped world. The movie contains beautifully photographed scenes of one of the most primitive sports on earth as well as glimpses of the culture of the local Indians and the problems they confront as the modern world encroaches on their territory. Herzog hired many natives as extras and laborers, and the practice created typically Western dilemmas over how to run the camp where both Indians and film crew lived. Should the rules of Western society or the laws of the jungle take precedence? Herzog's pursuit...