Word: buzzers
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Good sportswriters have the talent to take the insignificant and make it universal, to take the minute and make it allegorical. These reporters can describe a last second buzzer-beating basket in a cellar-dweller basketball game in such terms that we are convinced that this one, perhaps lucky, shot is evidence of the triumph of the human spirit. And they also have the talent to depict the sophomoric tendencies and playing style of a Bill Laimbeer in such a way that we're absolutely sure that these minor flaws are embodiments of the devil incarnate...
...final minute, however, Kristen Fowler led the pack in pushing the ball into the Friars' end as the buzzer sounded...
...wanted a French film sense." That means not rushing or spoon-feeding the audience, not forcing easy moral judgments through camera effects or the placement of actors in the frame. This is not, in Foster's words, "a $20 million nightmare"; her directorial hand does not conceal a joy buzzer. She caresses each movie moment as if it were privileged...
...overtimes Harvard played with much more composure, but failed to convert on any of its chances. The final buzzer sounded with Harvard in Brown's circle readying for a shot, but unable...
...stunned and silenced crowd looked on as the final buzzer sounded and the Crimson walked off the court with a 101-86 victory...