Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it came tournament time, Harvard hit the floor with the confidence of a winner, making diving saves to keep rallies alive, fighting for every point. Bench players cheered on their teammates and entertained the 200 fans with their own version of "The Wave." When Harvard took a set, the players rushed the court to congratulate the victors...
...standard, Fatal Attraction is no masterpiece. The plot has holes you could drive Beth's station wagon through. (How does Alex get Ellen out of school? Why didn't the family dog bark when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic...
Should the bill fail to reach the floor before December 31, it will die in committee, causing a breakdown in the planning of the museum. The donor of the land, Sprague Technologies, and the art collectors have committed themselves only until the end of 1987, after which the land and the art may go to other owners...
Members of the North Adams community fear that other, less popular projects for which the bill also provides funding could prevent it from passing or even from ever reaching the floor of the House...
...Ways and Means Press Secretary Ann Murphy said that although the bill will not be on the House agenda in the immediate future, the other projects are not preventing it from reaching the floor...