Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it is at rest, the design of a Greek mask of tragedy, a curious effect. When Buchanan speaks I hear the driving, urgent undershadow of menace (promises of dark things, of retribution) that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy conjured; their voices are eerily similar, and, like Pat, Joe McCarthy had considerable personal charm...
...TIME IS CHRISTMAS. THE PLACE, a disused church deep in the English provinces. The characters, half a dozen profoundly marginalized show folks determined to put on a play. Not just any play, mind you--Hamlet is what Joe Harper (Michael Maloney), their director-producer-star, has maxed out his credit cards to mount...
Those matches were as close as the Lord Jeffs came to preventing the contest from being a shutout. Co-captain Joe Kaplan and junior Jake Hollinger both won by 3-1 counts, but in both cases the Amherst player won a game when his counterpart already had a commanding 2-0 lead...
Half of Harvard's goals were gifts, too. Big Red starting goalie Eddy Skazyk stopped Joe Craigen's shot only to have his own defenseman swat the puck off of himself and into his own net to give the Crimson a 3-2 lead. And Henry Higdon's second goal that put Harvard up 4-3 gave new meaning to the word sieve for back-up netminder Jason Elliott as the puck inexcusably scooted through the goalie...
DIED. JERRY SIEGEL, 81, co-creator of Superman; in Los Angeles. In a single fateful bound in 1938, Siegel and his artist partner Joe Shuster leaped to sell their Superman rights to Detective Comics for a mere $130. In 1975, long after the Man of Steel had become a man of gold (and his two creators had drifted into near poverty), Warner Communications, which by then owned the rights, agreed to restore the two men's bylines and give them annual stipends for life...