Word: doorsteps
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Harvard laid several pucks on the Michigan State doorstep, and knocked on the post a handful of times, but MSU wouldn't exchange the Crimson's currency...
...Bourbeau, with three flicks of his wrist, turned a 2-1 first-period deficit into a 4-3 second-period lead. Harvard was on the doorstep of destiny...
...north Miami shootout, posse gunmen killed a six-year-old boy on the doorstep of an ice-cream parlor. At Fort Lauderdale's Firemen's Benevolent Hall, Jamaican gang members killed one person and wounded several others when they emptied their machine guns during a reggae dance. Since witnesses are often too terrified of retaliation to testify against the gangsters, suspected posse assassins usually escape conviction...
...many ways his movie is the most conventional of the lot. Chance does not place an infant on the suburban doorstep of Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon). His wife Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern), goaded on by her folks and his, makes him work embarrassingly hard at producing an offspring -- all to help her fulfill her motherly instincts (Jake has a not too hilarious problem with his sperm count). But having been, at best, an ambivalent bridegroom (goodbye novel writing, hello advertising; goodbye sex as sport, hello sex as duty, with Chain Gang for scoring), he has an underdeveloped feeling for fatherhood...
...Kozol is not really trying to be fair. An award-winning gadfly of the Boston schools where he once taught (Death at an Early Age, Illiterate America), he is trying to assault and appall his readers, to jar them from their complacent acceptance of the young beggars on their doorstep. To some extent, he succeeds in arousing anger. He quotes Robert Coles as saying that these are times when people "have to throw up their hands in heaviness of heart . . . and say, in desperation: God save them, those children; and for allowing such a state of affairs to continue...