Word: clinchers
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...more proof be needed, then the scene on the bench facing the Verrazano Bridge is the clincher. Travolta speaks of the building of the bridge, all its specifications and statistics, like a man surveying an escape route from Brooklyn he is not sure he can ever take. His girl?the one he has been trying unsuccessfully to put the make on?hears the longing and the edge of desperation in his voice and kisses him on the cheek. He makes no move toward her, does not, in fact, even look at her. His eyes are full, and he is crying...
...self-proclaimed "critic" in a tan polyester suit. 6) Shortly after the second joking reference was made to McDonald's "fallen arches," I realized that I had already logged more time in the theater that evening than I had spent on my senior thesis all semester. 7) The clincher came when I ran into two friends--Janice, with whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They hadn't even seen Dreyfuss, but were...
...last night's hockey tilt would have been the clincher. A win last evening and Dartmouth would have pulled out of the Ivy League, expelled all of its females, and become one of those agrarian-type prep schools where an expert cowmilker is considered a jock...
...long minutes, 13 plays and 53 yards later, it was over. John Pagliaro, who carried the ball on nine of those plays and who will probably have a college named for him at Yale, scored the symbolic clincher with a two-yard blast...
...Nelson goal with 7:31 gone in the second overtime decided the defensive struggle. Nelson dribbled past the UMass goalie and rolled the ball into the net for the clincher. Bob Carey was credited with the assist...