Word: blows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mansfield "[struck] a blow for free speech,"Paglia said...
...House. It may look chaotic from the outside. The people who work there may feel it is chaotic. But if it works one more time, they ought to just lock it in and not fool with it. You've got to just hope that it's only going to blow up once in a while...
...physicists at Harvard and around the country, however, it was a paralyzing blow--entirely closing off potential areas of study, and providing proof of the government's increased antipathy to long-term research in basic science...
...doesn't quite take your breath away. That's the downside of disciplined filmmaking. Even though the movie is quarried out of a substantial fictional trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis, it plays more as anecdote than as a fully developed narrative. It feels somehow ephemeral -- a glancing blow, not quite a knockout. Still, emotional acuity, expressed with brisk intelligence, is not a common movie commodity, and it ought to be valued when you come across...
...very blow that was apparently designed to shatter Kerrigan's hopes and improve Harding's prospects promises to have the opposite effect both on the ice and off. If Harding skates in Lillehammer, she will face a chilly reception from a panel of judges reluctant to bestow gold on a skater who has cast so dark a shadow over the sport. "Subconsciously they're probably going to mark her down," says Seppo Iso-Ahola, a University of Maryland sports psychologist...