Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predictions, this was going to be THE year for Harvard baseball. I his was going to be the year that Harvard did more than a quick tango with the great teams of college ball before making an exit out the back door at the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...yesterday; Estelle in 'No Exit...
...ASPECT of Clara's metamorphosis, and indeed of the whole fantasy of escape into aristocratic elegance which comprises the central theme of the film, is that this is precisely the sort of ambivalent and delusory self-consciousness we might expect a woman in her situation to have: the easiest exit from the drudgery and stark misery of factory and tenement is assimilation into the elite through physical beauty and seductive charm, as the heroines of mass culture from Cinderella to Marilyn Monroe have discovered. Had De Sica treated the contradictions in Clara's self-awareness with the sardonic tone whose...
Bullhorns echoed on Unity Boulevard as gray-uniformed cops tried to control the crowds seeking exit visas. Every American firm, bank and news organization was besieged by strangers seeking help to get out of Saigon. "My daughter worked here during Tet," one old woman told the manager of a news bureau as she held up a snapshot of the girl. "Can you help me?" A CBS correspondent trying to reach Hong Kong by telex kept typing: "Can you get me Hong Kong?" The Vietnamese operator down the street kept tapping back...