Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROVIDENCE--With an awesome display of power, depth and fast swimming, the Princeton Tigers withstood a strong challenge from Brown to recapture first place at the Women's Ivy League Swimming Championships last night with 1189.5 points...
...rest of the cast fares better, though their performances display little more than simple competence. Particularly good are Wahl who brings an authentic Brooklyn charm to Corelli and Rachel Ticotin who, as Isabella, manages to survive several of Gould's most abysmal lines...
...stowed away, Shannon and company--a small international band of warriors-for-pay bound by shared danger, shared skill, and shared thirst for beer--set sail aboard a trawler for Zangaro. They land late at night, eliminate a sentry or two, and then storm a garrison in a violent display of pyrotechnics. Shortly afterwards, justice triumphs--to say more would give the ending away, and probably reintroduce this question of politics...
...leadership "has mellowed a bit," says one Cabinet minister with whom she often disagrees sharply. However, she still tends to dominate discussions among her inner circle, and Cabinet ministers, particularly those who do not share her views, grouse about her overlong lectures and lack of humor. She does display a thoughtfulness about personal situations and an unaffected directness in talking with "little people." On the same day that she has purposely discomfited a minister, she will stop and have a cup of tea with the Downing Street switchboard operators. At a recent Tory conference, a 15-year-old lad made...
...clothes of peculiar colors--is a reverence for achievement, particularly success that appears to come effortlessly. That is where the Kroks come in. Their performances seem to have two purposes; in order of importance, they are: 1. to show that they are having a good time, and 2. to display their singing talent. That the Kroks are indeed excellent singers comes almost as an afterthought; their primary message seems always to be, "This is what we like to do." Totally...