Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plays a ruined yuppie wretch who advises the movie's hero during the latter's supernatural quest for redemption. Then The Fisher King -- as a ruined yuppie wretch whose wife's murder propels him and the movie's hero on a supernatural quest for redemption. Now it's Hook, in which he plays a wretched yuppie whose children's kidnapping propels him on a supernatural quest for redemption...
After pulling down the loose ball, the junior connected on a hook shot with seven seconds to play, as Hartford downed the Crimson...
...indictment of Libya in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland completely ignored significant evidence of Syrian involvement. Not only was Syria let off the hook, but Bush complained that Syria was getting a "bum rap" due to suspicion that it was involved in the mass murder...
HARVARD LIKES TO consider itself at the forefront of academic exploration and scientific discovery. But while the ceilings crumble in Stoughton Hall, our biggest technological advance this year is a phone system that took two months to hook up. Harvard is so antiquated that we don't even have free access to standard word processing programs in our computer center...
...liked Joe Morgan because he took responsibility for his own mistakes. Once, he decided to let Mike Gardiner try to pitch out of trouble. Gardiner gave up a three-run homer, but the Sox won anyway. Afterwards, Morgan was grinning big: "They let me off the hook today...