Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call them the Four-Minutemen. Still number-one ranked UMass pulled the comeback of the year Friday night, erasing an 18-point deficit at West Virginia in the final four minutes and winning in overtime...
...distrust of authority cuts across almost all aspects of American life, including the spiritual realm. Whereas religious leaders are enjoying a modest comeback in credibility, according to the Yankelovich Monitor, Americans want to keep their own counsel. ``We're finding that people are uncertain about things, but they've got their own moral tool kits,'' says Alan Wolfe, chairman of the sociology department at Boston University. ``So you can say authority has broken down, but you can also say that people have a great opportunity to make up their own understanding of the world. A lot of people are very...
This is Edward Albee's comeback drama: it signals his triumphant return to New ! York theater and to the acclaim that was his 30 years ago. But in this poignant, formally exciting memory play he also comes back to the issue of family, which energized Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee faces his demon -- his adoptive mother -- in a dazzling act of exorcism and forgiveness...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said he would stay in office to face a no-confidence vote in parliament, rather than resign and plot a political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry...
...other Patriots follow his lead, from Coates to Hurst to rookie McGinest. Did you see how systematic their destruction of the four-time defending AFC champs looked on Sunday? Quite the Buffalo-Houston comeback in reverse, one might...