Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mythology. Harvard's radicals did not simply cut their hair, don suits and flock hastily to the nearest law or business school. Many are teachers in urban schools, directors of public interest groups, union organizers. Some are academics. Few, if any, now believe that revolution lurks just around the corner. But if they have discarded some of the rhetoric, they have not abandoned their ideals: radical or progressive politics, albeit in different, perhaps subtler, forms, remain central to their lives...
...look of rough creatures trapped in an alien element, refugees from Goya and Velásquez as well as from the 20th century. This ability to suggest cultural continuity in the midst of a general malaise may be the final rea son why Kitaj's art haunts a corner of one's mind that no other living painter has contrived to occupy. -Robert Hughes
This time around, Acosta held the All-American Stenhouse to 0-for-3, twice getting him on called third strikes that may or may not have kissed the outside corner. Said Stenhouse: "I thought they were outside." Said Acosta, grinning ear-to-ear: "They were good pitches. No doubt...
...forehand into Robinson's deep backhand corner, a glorious backhand slice, a Robinson net shot, Pompan's hustling return and a backhand deep to Robinson's backhand forced an error and gave Pompan...
MacMillan said the laxwomen tried to whip wing-to-wing passes across the field and either set up ground shots from the outside, or give the ball to a feeder behind the net who would toss the ball out to one of the four-corner attackers...