Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even more, though, he enjoys the almost certain prospect of disaster. He has been looking for a way over the brink for a long time...
...attainment of political power by democratic means. And in June 1975, when the PC boasted control of five of Italy's regions and control of three of its four major cities, the party had ostensibly accomplished what Togliatti had set out to do: it had moved to the brink of political power...
Standing on the brink of ECAC extinction, Billy Cleary's Crimson squad came out possessed in the third period, wiping out a two-goal deficit in the first three minutes and gaining some breathing room in the Eastern standings. Jon Schuster's slapper tied it at 2:19 of the third...
Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
...Oldenburg does not push his conceptualizing and image generating into such an abyss; he only takes it up to the brink, and looks over. The view is technicolored, panoramic...