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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scoffs at the legend and further ruffles burly townsman Brom Bones' feathers by flirting with his girlfriend, Katrina Van Tassel. Riding home after being rebuffed by Katrina at a quilting party one night, Ichabod begins to take the town's superstition more seriously when he hears the clippety-clop of a following horse. His fears getting the best of him, he is eventually reduced to a quivering coward racing for the covered bridge that marks the end of the horseman's haunted territory. Just as he nears the bridge, he turns to see what looks like a headless horseman hurling...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...change what we could increased. My newfound commitment to the University comes from this awareness of my own potential to change it. But for all the possibilities that I now have, I remain greatly nostalgic whenever I think about the time when I could almost hear the clip-clop of horses on the bricks...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Mythical Harvard | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...once, the movement on the screen feels real. Nudge the stick forward, Mario walks: clump-clump-clump. Press it a bit more, he leans forward and trots: clop-clop-clop-clop. Push it all the way, he runs faster and faster, tiny legs pumping in unison with his body, his rising speeds a seamless gradation of motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPER MARIO'S DAZZLING COMEBACK | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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