Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kevin J. O'Connor) is a stuporous New York City punk in high-top Keds and a greasy leather jacket, who has just lost his job and wants to become a musician. Somehow he convinces a bandleader, Keith Burns (Buster Poindexter, a.k.a. David Johansen) to give him his "big break" if he can locate a reclusive acoustic guitar maker, Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin), who has mysteriously disappeared from the New York music scene...
...play for about 15 seconds, uses an electric guitarist anyway, and you can hardly hear him under all the brass. In addition, Julius himself, who gets a chance at one point to croon a bit of a folk song, proves himself an impossibly bad musician, so a "big break" hardly seems in order for him even if he could find Elmore Silk...
...Crimson had numerous chances to put the game away in the third period, including a Char Joslin blast that clanged off the crossbar in the dying seconds of a Harvard power play. The squad, however, managed to break through when junior Julia Trotman snagged a rebound and directed it past Coyne with only 3:29 left in the period...
After 10 years of diving, she needed a change. "Senior year I lost interest and wanted to try something new," she says. "I was just burnt out. I really enjoy diving but I was getting down on myself, and like any other athlete I needed a break...
Ther is a good chance that Suess will push Greene enough to break the only two pool records she does not own. Those records are for 11-dive totals, only performed in championship meets like Easterns. "I finally get a chance at the pool records, because we have never had a championship meet here," Greene says...