Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's team was for real, that last weekend's overtime win against highly-ranked Columbia was no fluke. But he was missing Craig "Pepper" Brill and Tanner Sly, his two best defenders, and facing a coaching legend in the University of Connecticut's Joe Morrone. Morrone, the cagey godfather of Storrs, Conn., was entering his 500th game and had compiled an amazing 309-143-47 record. He hasn't had a losing season in 15 years...
...Kevin is cagey about all these titles and wary of what they represent. "Being Harvard's Young Black Poet is really frustrating, mostly because of the Harvard part, honestly, not because of the Young or Black," he says. "It says something about [Harvard's] inability to provide a community of writers...
...problem for the world's most astonishing athlete; he makes them 82 games a season. Also quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...
...problem for the world's most astonishing athlete; he makes them 82 games a season. Also quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...
...Nicholas Kazan and director Barbet Schroeder have woven a cunningly old-fashioned artifice -- a drawing-room comedy with a toxic tinge ^ -- told from three points of view. Alan (Ron Silver) is the detective, groping for a truth he may never know or, knowing, accept. Claus (Jeremy Irons) is the cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close) relates her own version from the hospital bed where she vegetates -- the most audacious narrative device since Sunset Blvd...