Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premeditated pitch to Mantle was hushed up for years, whereas the Sales shot was a surreal, Broadway-like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even more contrived. Geno Auriemma, UConn's coach, devised the stunt, then suggested it to his buddy...
...estimate, he campaigned flat-outfrom January to November 1963 with the exceptionof two Saturday nights and a stint at his NewHampshire summer camp. And Duehay added that onone of the two Saturday nights he missed, hesimply fell asleep...
...style containment of Iraq, a long-range and unpalatable option. In a televised speech at the Pentagon last Tuesday, the President wore a properly dark suit and a somber, clench-jawed expression. He seemed uncomfortable and spoke in a monotone that some of the senior officers listening found "flat" and "uninspiring." Force, Clinton said, was sometimes the only answer...
...character. Lensky himself never led the romantic life that his namesake fancy, but he did exhibit the feeling of modish spleen of the 19th-century aristocratic like the characters in Pushkin's novel. Lensky could always be found languoring in his bowl, not doing much of anything, a bored, flat expression on his face...
...Dickens and lacking only the original's extenuating genius, forms the stem of Carey's plot. But, as befits a mock-19th century novel, there are many fascinating exfoliations. All of Carey's major characters come equipped with vivid childhoods--not just Maggs, thrown on a Thames mud flat as an infant and adopted in order to be trained as a thief, or Oates, humiliated and impoverished young by a feckless father. There is also Mercy Larkin, who befriends Maggs and who was sent into prostitution when barely more than a child by her own mother...