Word: etching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fusco was, from the start, considered a first rate defenseman, destined to etch his mark in College sports history. But the squad he started with as a freshman was so dismal it seemed he would never garner more than individual trophies...
...quite the appropriate term For Cheever has, over his career, penned more arabesques than stories. Moorish in their conspicuous lack of breathing things, these works give the feeling that their "characters" are really the pointed little white spots that move in geometrically predestined directions across an oversized etch-a-sketch board. The spots, typically upper middle class suburban or uptown New York spots, meander, speedup and decelerate as they course ineluctably through the turns Ultimately, the design ties itself off with a sudden bizarre crook--a child gets shredded by a ski lift, a husband is shot by his wife...
...maned lion who roars formidably against his self-sought fate. He is a ham to his hocks, but he serves Shakespeare with feudal valor ("We've done it, Will, we've done it"). As for Courtenay's Norman, as his voice echoes sepulchers and his hands etch the air with images of touching vulnerability, he opens the book of acting to a previously uncut page. -By T.E. Kalem
...1930s, Babe Didrikson and Jesse Owens came to national attention at the Trials, foreshadowing the performances that made the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Games memorable. Last time, a hurdler named Edwin Moses set an American record in the 400-meter hurdles. He went on to etch a world mark at Montreal in 1976 and has since put together a string of 40 consecutive victories...
...that storied court will stand Bjorn Borg, defending champion, the only modern player to win four straight Wimbledon titles ? and, if the oddsmakers are correct, the first man to win five. Not quite ready yet for tea and reverie, he returns to Wimbledon seeking to etch even more deeply his record as the greatest champion in the history of the game's most fabled tournament, and one of the most successful athletes of any sport, any time, anywhere...