Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conspiracy. As millions held their collective breath, the New York Rangers finally broke the curse and ended 54 years of suffering. At long last, they claimed the Stanley Cup earlier this month. Simultaneously, their counterparts at the Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks, defied expectations by taking the Houston Rockets to Game 7 of the NBA finals. It was the franchise's best showing since the 1973 championship. The New York Yankees presently sit atop the American League East, on pace to claim their first division title since 1981. Why are New York sports teams suddenly breaking their longenduring...
Against that surreal backdrop, the rest of Haiti seems to be holding its breath. Despite the apocalyptic fears of the BMW-and-beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will...
...most compelling of contrary facts. More important is that likable or unlikable, O.J. Simpson is and always will be a real person in other people's mind. And all but the most hardened death-penalty enthusiasts will quaver at the thought of this real person -- O.J. Simpson! -- gasping for breath as the cyanide begins to do its fatal work...
What hard-pressed executive would not covet the boons conferred on the depressed and integrity-ridden Will after he's nipped on the wrist by a rough beast slouching along a Vermont roadway? All his senses are suddenly sharpened: he can smell liquor on a colleague's breath at a dozen paces, overhear plotting phone calls far down the corridor, even -- literally -- sniff out his wife's affair with his chief rival (James Spader). He becomes, you might say, an animal in bed. And he, naturally, develops a taste for the jugular in matters of business...
From trying to salvage that one second on the clock to running out all his groundouts on the baseball team, Giardi wanted it bad, as bad as a drowning man wants a breath, and that will be his legacy at Harvard...