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Brown's (0-2-1 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy) last gasp was extinguished when Danny Clark's pass was intercepted by Frank Leal with 1:30 left in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn, Princeton Win; Navy Sinks Bulldogs | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...could be that columnists may not know the facts when they say that Jackson has had a free ride because he is Black. But it is more likely that the cry for Jackson to be taken seriously really amounts to a gasp of exasperation that a man who has been so heavily scrutinized, who has been the subject of so much negative publicity, continues...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: What More Do They Want on Jesse? | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Scott Fusco sat in the stands, helpless to stop the screaming with a goal. Bourbeau's magic wand turned into--gasp--a hockey stick...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Days When Michigan State Was Champion | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...face: namely risky, exciting moves. While the audience waited anxiously to glimpse skaters perform a daring sequence of triple-jumps, who among the viewers held his or her breath while Witt flirted with the audience? There simply wasn't anything in her skating suspenseful enough to merit a gasp...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Athletes or Aesthetes | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...what. For those who seek an equivalent to a ride through the Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World -- seemingly a vast proportion of today's Broadway audience -- Phantom is a brilliantly manipulated journey, scary yet ultimately unthreatening. A prime example is the show's most celebrated effect, the gasp-evoking plummet from the ceiling almost to the floor of a 1,500-lb. chandelier. Many spectators arrive knowing it will drop, and the staging gives plenty of clues to the rest. Equally, however, audiences can trust that the "danger" will be averted at the last possible minute, so the dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Music Of The Night THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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