Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight seed, while second-seeded Harvard will entertain the seventh-ranked entrant. The sixth travels to the third, while the fifth visits the fourth. The first round will consist of two games at each site and if a series is tied after the second game, a 10-minute tie breaker will determine the winner. After one 10-minute period the contest for a second round berth will be a sudden death overtime. A series will not be decided on the basis of total goals: if the teams split the two games the tie-breaker will be played. Place, Team, Record...
...Hollywood. The best directors have been wooed to the U.S. to make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could...
...Verdict is not, however, a particularly provocative ethical drama in the tradition of Breaker Morant. The decision before the court is presented throughout the film unequivocally in Galvin's favor. Unlike Breaker Morant, there actually is a right decision and it is only a question of whether the court will make it. The court's decision is microscoped into the judgment of the fate of one man instead of being telescoped to encompass a much greater fate...
...1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian's teammates dressed him in his pads. He stands...
...increases. They were rebuffed so completely that they are not about to challenge the boss's most cherished beliefs so directly again. A favorite saying around the White House is that one staff member or another "broke his pick" confronting Reagan with such unwelcome advice. One prominent pick breaker was Baker. At one point he so nettled Reagan by pressing for excise taxes and defense cuts that the President took off his glasses, glared at his aide and asked, "If that's what you believe, then what in the hell are you doing here?" Says one colleague: "Baker has thrown...