Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson travels to MIT Thursday. Though the program down the river has improved, Harvard is confident that it will be successful against its cross-town rivals...
Junior forward Lisa Cutone scored the lone goal early in the second half on a cross pass from classmate Sharon Landau during a scuffle in front of the goal. Cutone, who was one of the top goal scorers on the team last season with five tallies, redeemed herself for a missed penalty stroke awarded the Crimson (1-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) on a goalie foul minutes before...
...into this abrasive parable of sexual frustration comes Martin (Gary Oldman), an Englishman who feels like an orphan, an alien in America -- the man who fell to earth, into a lonely woman's dream. She needs a son, so he'll be one, a cross between Dennis the Menace and Oedipus. He will play on her longing and guilt, in baby talk that moves her: "You never cuddled me, did you? . . . And you never let me follow your finger along the line of nice big $ words ((like)) 'Once upon a time.' " He will relive what was never his, "my American...
...place of extremes that demands and enforces toughness. In winter it is bitingly cold, with winds blowing down from Siberia; in summer, so hot that some choose to sleep in the streets. Simply negotiating the city is a task that is not for the faint of body. To cross busy roads, pedestrians must clamber up overpasses or, more frequently, descend into underground mazes that seethe with shops and exits. Thus a walk down three city blocks can become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps up, and leaves one feeling fit enough to enter...
...South Africa-born Budd. Slaney's Olympic nemesis was tastelessly hounded into retirement earlier this year by foes of apartheid. Slaney recently has been on antibiotics for an unspecified illness, but her once fierce confidence has returned, this time tempered with the realization that dreams are oh so fragile. "Cross my fingers," she has been saying often these pre-Olympic days. "Knock on wood...