Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood's summer officially began last weekend with the box-office sure thing Maverick, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and the lead from the '50s TV version, old Bret (or was it Bart?) Maverick himself, James Garner. This week a live-action take on The Flintstones debuts, with John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as Barney and Betty Rubble. Later this summer, Lassie will bark her way back into your heart, and Wyatt Earp will gallop across the wide screen. The Little Rascals, based on the old movie shorts...
...about Maverick is that it does the job -- it allows you to spend a perfectly agreeable evening without making you feel completely stupid or totally conned. The film offers us Mel Gibson as a new Bret Maverick, the Western gambler, as well as the old TV Maverick, James Garner, now playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next good part to develop. Jodie Foster has to work harder as a gambling lady who exists mostly to bicker...
Then, just two days ago, the Crimson bounced back against Boston College, a team it had tied in the Beanpot. Down 3-1 early, the team battled back to win 4-3 and garner its first win over the Eagles in three years...
...Crimson still managed to garner a number of first-, second- and third-place finishes...
...four-team Red Rolfe division at this point in the season. A solid four games in back of division-leading Yale with only six league games left, the Crimson (9-14 overall, 4-8 Ivy) has an outside-at-best shot at realizing its season-long goal: to garner at last a share of the division title...