Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the man-advantage, Harvard set up quickly in the Adelphi some, and Co-Captain Brendan Meagher passed inside to team scoring leader Rob Hawley, who turned, shot and shattered the jinx. But nothing followed beyond the typical post-goal jubilliation; the players on the sidelines were similarly blast. "Maybe it was too early [in the game]," attackman Peter Follows guessed...
...this year's Crimson squad has every reason to expect to end the Tiger jinx when the 1983 championships open today at the IAB. Harvard brings a startling 32-2 season mark into the tournament, and among those 32 wins is a 3-0 drubbing of the Tigers in the NCAA Regionals two weeks...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team has picked up the Princeton jinx...
Jinsed's basic premise is that a petty gambler named Howard (Rip Torn) has somehow managed to put a "jinx" on a young blackjack dealer. Willy (Ken Wahl), and is now chasing him from casino to casino trying to break the bank. Whenever Howard smokes a certain magically lucky brand of cigar, he's sure to win any hand Willy deals him Howard is a rather sleazy character with a seemingly infinite wardrobe of polyester Stetson hats, and this is his first chance...
Harnessed to what is not a terribly fresh scenario to begin with, the preposterous premise of the "jinx" certainly can't pull a reasonably adult audience through a full-length feature film. Unfortunately, the redoubtable presence of Bette Midler can't either. She doesn't get a chance to act seriously, as she did in The Rose; for can she turn the whole thing into a high-camp parody, as in her wonderful stage shows. The material is simply too bland to get hold of, Even Midler's trademarks, the peroxide hair and fluorescent clothes, don't glitter as they...