Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief moment in the Cornell match, however, it appeared as though Fish needed his big guns...
Talia is standing by the small window inside a worn tent, a streak of morning light framing her pretty face in the smoky air. She smiles at the baby in her arms, and for a singular, brief moment she looks like a Madonna in the midst of hell. Her three elder children are sitting on a blanket set on the cold, damp ground. The eldest, a boy of seven, has a vacant look in his eyes, and he twitches every few seconds, like someone lost beyond the edge of pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look...
...morning after the NBC broadcast, the New York Times included the woman's identity in a long profile so unflattering that it could serve as a brief for a defense lawyer trying to discredit her. A story naming the victim appeared in the Des Moines Register, which two weeks ago won a Pulitzer Prize for telling the story of a rape victim who, unlike Smith's accuser, wanted to have her story told. Other publications piled...
Perhaps his life was cracked after Bobby died, and Teddy found he was on his own and began to cross over from the powerful myth of his family into real time, which is intolerant of the bright and ideal. The fracture set a pattern of sharp contradiction: the "brief shining moment" would give way to long, sordid aftermaths. Greek tragedy ("the curse of the Kennedys") would degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party...
...four months of matches, games and scrimmages you could not mention the progress of the lesser sports more than you did. For example, in our own case, we counted a total of three articles and two pictures alloted to men's volleyball during the course of our season. These brief appearances in The Crimson all occurred before we had completed the first third of our season, which began in early January and finished this past weekend. It seems to us that rugby, swimming and golf find themselves in similar circumstances...