Word: jinxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While there may indeed be a jinx on the men's hockey team this season, the Crimson is still committing some fundamental errors that are costing it garbage goals. After bombarding St. Lawrence goalie Clint Owen in a furious offensive assault for most of the second period, the Crimson gave up its fourth goal on a two-on-one defensive blunder...
...jinx," captain Brad Konik said...
...Yeah, it's a jinx," Nielsen agreed...
...game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross-out but inoffensive, since it's rooted in whimsy, not malice. Smith finesses the sophomore jinx with sophomoric high jinks...
...choices, he can guarantee "threeout of four times" that they will get their topchoice. As his roommate recalls, "He claimed tohave dreams about the houses...When he claimedthat he knew with absolute certainty our lotterynumber, we called him on it. He said he wouldn'ttell us because it would jinx us, so he put thenumber he dreamt into a sealed envelope and we allsigned across the top. We did get into Eliot, buthe was wrong by about 300 numbers...