Word: clincher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album's wonderful opening, Modern Love, which becomes the climactic clincher of the concert, ticks off the failing solaces of contemporary life, such as love and religion, while a bouncy chorus invokes "God and man" as if they were the co-owners of the corner candy store. Let's Dance, a love song rilled with the promise of passion and the threat of impermanence under "this serious moonlight," has one of those weird, hypnotic choruses that uses the colors and objects of dreams like surrealistic talismans: "Let's dance/ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...
...ensuing days press reports would play up the fact that a seventeen year-old Brazilian girl had slit her wrists in despair and that three elderly Brazilians liens had suffered heart attacks at the moment of Rossi's clincher. Soccer, it was duly noted, was a life-or-death matter in much of the world, especially in Latin American and Europe...
...secure. His error, confusing the commercial opportunities awaiting white heroes and black heroes, was soon revealed, along with a paternity suit, a sadly overblown welfare department formality. Leonard never denied he was the father of Juanita Wilkinson's boy child. But the mean publicity that followed was the clincher: if Leonard hoped for his own 7-Up commercial, or anything else, he would have to fight...
...real clincher came last May, when the boys in the Kremlin set out to organize their annual office party in celebration of Karl Marx's birthday. In the hallways of that impressive building on Red Square, secretaries spent their lunch hours gossiping would Andropov or Brezhnev's top assistant Konstantin Chernenko be put in charge of the festivities...
...organizers of the contest had picked the eight Senate races the New York Times had chosen as most hotly contested. There was Moffet and Weicker in Connecticut, Laudenberg and Fenwick in New Jersey, Wilson and Hatch in Utah. And for the clincher, a tie breaker: "Pick the number of the net gain of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives." The winner of all of this, of course, was to win the pot, as well as all the money collected from entrants...