Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
...Taylor's hacienda is around the corner. Zsa Zsa Gabor's cottage is just up the street. Joanna Carson and Robert Stack have their digs within Shih Tzu walking distance. Ah, it will feel so good to be back home again...
Harvard spread its offense, setting up attackman David Kramer at the top right corner of the box. The laxmen passed the ball around for only a few seconds before Kramer whipped off an underhanded shot. Kramer's bullet beat Vermont goalie Brian Eng to the upper corner...
...shame to be stuck in [one's] own corner and not know what else is going on," says Alice Finn '84, a Law School student and the current chair of the council...
...more Ks can fit the K corner. Doc Gooden has done it, striking out 24 batters in a single game...