Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While linebacker Sam Pedroza accounted for clutch tackles, Corbett and defensive back Coley Buellsfeld stopped Adams/Mather progress with a pair of interceptions...
...subject. Horseplay was on show as much as horsemanship, and high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter-in-Law Di. The royals know how to follow trends, it seems, as well as how to set them...
...Rangoon looked like a blow-up of a nineteenth-century cameo. The last time we drove in a car was the taxi from the airport. First of all, they don't use lights at night--waste of energy. Second of all, most cars don't have starters or a clutch, so a couple of young gentlemen are needed to push the van off. In the city, you see no cars made after 1950, mostly just a few WWII jeeps left behind by Allied soldiers, horse-carriages, and bicycle rickshaws...
BEFORE E.M. FORSTER became an embittered, cynical old man preoccupied with the clash of cultures inside the British Empire, he was content to explore the clutch of emotions unleashed by the painful first love of a young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...
...domestic spending are anything but minor. The President proposes to wipe out completely a wide range of federal programs. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Small Business Administration and subsidies to Amtrak form just a small part of the hit list. Reagan would also sell to private investors a clutch of federal assets, including Government petroleum reserves and five federal electric-power facilities...