Word: heroic
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...reasons for any great band's decline--and from 1983 to 1992 R.E.M. was one of the greatest, not only cranking out an unmatched series of jangly, literate records but also tracing a heroic arc from arty Athens, Ga., bar band to arena filler without any of the usual soul-selling--are not particularly surprising. Imagine if your livelihood depended on constantly being with, and agreeing with, your three best friends from college. It's enough to make a rock star want to become a farmer, which is exactly what drummer Bill Berry did when he retired from the band...
...half, it was just a little too late.” Harvard kept within striking distance because of Tay and Hallion, who combined for 40 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists. In the final minute, however, the Crimson couldn’t break through, despite Hallion’s heroic efforts in her final game and Tay’s hot hand. “This has been a season-long trend,” Finelli said. “Our physical game is there. It’s not a matter of whether we have the personnel...
...police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police dramas. Wald, who was nominated for an Oscar for the film...
...opening sets of its singles matches, as was evident from the results of those sets: only one firm win—off the red hot racket of No. 2 senior Ashwin Kumar—and another win, by No. 5 freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, that required a heroic comeback in the tiebreaker.Down 2-5 in the tiebreaker, Omodele-Lucien changed his strategy.“I just decided to focus on hitting out,” said Omodele-lucien, using the term tennis players use for focusing on fundamental play. “I didn’t focus...
...meetings between male and female students. According to his children, Stewart, who in 1957 wrote a letter to The Crimson celebrating the “gentlemanly conduct” and “integrity” of a member of the janitorial staff, had a habit of seeing the heroic side of people who lived their lives far from public view. Stewart, his daughter said, once sent his three children a reminder of some of the great role models they had known: “a cook, a housekeeper, and a cowboy we knew well somewhere in Wyoming...