Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Sullivan, a senior in Eliot House, led the "skin" comeback by scoring three buckets, calling two fouls, and effectively frustrating Victor Bondi, the "shirts"' leading scorer. After the game Bondi said, "There are no winners here, only survivors...
...thin. Lacking inspired lunacy, Director Harold Prince has taken refuge in camp and stylistic cartoonery. As Oscar Jaffee, the flamboyant theatrical producer who is down on his mendacious luck, John Cullum looks and cavorts rather like a Barrymore run off by a slightly defective duplicating machine. To make a comeback, he must sign Lily Garland, the woman he catapulted to stardom, to a stage contract. In that role, Madeline Kahn displays an arsenal of talents. She is kooky, vulnerable and seductive in succession, and her voice has a near operatic authority. As a religious nut, the Imogene Coca...
Today could be a big comeback day for Princeton, as Bill Specht and John Christensen look like sure winners in the 100-yd. butterfly and the 100-yd. breastroke...
Seven points by Bob Hooft (16 on the night, to match nine rebounds) and a Cyrus Booker slam-dunk keyed a mini-comeback that brought the IAB residents to within five points...
...industrial melodrama, a product not known to sell many tickets, the thing starts out simply enough: Loren Hardeman Sr., 86, founder of the Bethlehem Motor Co. back in the heroic days of car manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson...