Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GIPSY KINGS: MOSAIQUE (Elektra). Overbearing ethnic melodies from a group that had one of last year's fluke successes. If the Kings started toward your table in a restaurant, fiddling madly, you'd pay the maitre d' twice the price of this album to keep them away...
...that Whale tradition stuff, but we do have trouble winning here," wing John Weisbrod said. "Every year we come here thinking last year was a fluke, that we're the better team, that we should win, but we don't come up with a solid effort. If we could figure out what it was, it wouldn't happen...
...enough that she nearly derailed the yearlong stately procession. After losing in April to 15-year-old Monica Seles, Evert feared her skills and toughness were eroding so rapidly that she should quit at once. Bypassing her beloved French Open, she watched at home as Seles proved herself no fluke but a budding superstar by reaching the semifinals; then losing to her seemed less shameful and ominous. Evert went on to Wimbledon, a tournament that had been her nemesis (she lost seven of ten finals) but a place steeped in the traditions she reveres. She loves to quote the phrase...
...them are often just as forced. His arguments for the artistic merits of O'Neill's sobriety rely on circular logic. If O'Neill wrote badly sober, Dardis would maintain that alcohol was still in his system and clouded his thinking. If he wrote well drunk, it was a fluke...
...home this season. "I think it's about as favorable to us as it could be. They're coming here on our home ice; they're not rated number one in the nation. If we lose we have two or three games, so if we get beaten by a fluke we have a chance to come back...