Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is indisputably such a thing as the "Harvard game" in squash. Jack Barnaby instituted it and molded it into his legacy. Dave Fish, Barnaby's disciple, adopted it and refined it. Collegiate squash by nature has evolved into a banging, physical one. Games drag to become long, tough, and grinding. Coaches tell their players to go out and hit the ball 100 times, beat it until the opponent dies...
Penn and Tesich stuff so many old so many old socks of social issues into this laundry bag of a movie that the odors overwhelm. They drag us through a predictable much of cliches--a drug trip, a terminally ill college roommate--losing fun and movement in the search for "meaning". All the classic themes, the signs of the times, proliferate but they all fall flat...
...before they finally come to terms. No longer. Says Professor Daniel Mitchell, director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Los Angeles: "Both sides realize that they are in serious economic difficulties, and it would be imprudent on either side to allow things to drag on and run into an impasse and a possible strike...
...only problem with the strategy was that three of the Independents--Vellucci, Leonard J. Russell and Daniel F. Clinton--had their eye on the seat. And so the Independents have been unable to produce a mayor. Some had predicted the process could drag on for months...
...television, side by side in bright blue jumpsuits, they described their courage as all in the line of duty. Lenny Skutnik, a 28year-old employee of the Congressional Budget Office, said: "It's something I never thought I would do"- referring to his jumping into the water to drag an injured woman to shore. Skutnik added that "somebody had to go in the water," delivering every hero's line nobody is no less admirable for its repetitions. In fact, nobody had to of into the water. That somebody actually did so is part of the reason this particular...