Word: cleverisms
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...Until this tournament, where his enterprise and goals in the early rounds had football-lovers quietly hoping that the prodigal son was finally going to return to the stage where he belonged. His clever goal against Turkey, taken early, had put his team through to the final. Then his two strikes to the back of the German net - which gave him an overall tally of eight goals in seven games - finally laid his World Cup ghosts to rest...
...blew the big guns out of the competition. In just over three hours the three stars contrived to lose to players all ranked outside the world's top 50. Third-seeded Agassi lost in three sets to Thailand's Srichaphan, while the second seed Safin seemed powerless against the clever play of the Belgian Rochus. Afterwards Agassi and Safin admitted they had not been able to play well. But Sampras, who had won the Wimbledon title seven times in the last nine years, was stunned by his defeat. During the match, he read and reread a cheering note from...
...class than she gave him sex. Rogers was a showbiz cutie, just 21 when they were first paired (he was 33), and radiating healthy self-awareness more than eroticism; as Arlene Croce wrote in her vibrantly evocative critique "The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book," Ginger was "like a clever puppy who knows it's being watched." And, except metaphorically, there was no sex in their films; they typically played lovers who never got to kiss (except in the dream dance in "Carefree"). Yet they live in romance, on their flying, gliding feet...
...fair, Bowie's lyrics are clever, full of dread of the future and longing for escape. On Slip Away, he wistfully croons, "In space it's always 1982," referring to the peak of his popularity. But the music feels like a collection of eerie sound effects in search of a memorable tune to adorn. On the covers, Neil Young's I've Been Waiting for You and Cactus, a song by '80s post-punk band the Pixies, the futuristic soundscapes complement good, straightforward rock songs that provide what the album desperately needs: energy...
...field, no one could step up and match the contributions of Heptagonal champion Chris Clever ’01 or captain John Kraay ’01 in the throws...