Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate looking at it the way it is now. It's afabulous building. It will be a knockout once thetower is back on," said Secretary of the FacultyJohn...
...stand at the deli counter, ordering a roast beef on rye with lettuce from a knockout waitress who looks as if she comes from India. She slices the roast beef and reaches for the lettuce. My arm brushes against her wrist. We fix each other in a longing gaze. The lights in the deli go out, and then, in the sweaty summer evening, with the red neon pastrami sign flashing in the window, we roll around on the checkered linoleum among the containers of cole slaw and potato salad with chives. In the morning we run off together...
...Shows, on which Simon once worked ("But, Mother..." "Don't 'But, Mother' me." "But, Father..."). Director-choreographer Rob Marshall moves the pieces briskly in everything from the perky Rich Kids Rag number to a chain-gang soft shoe. Most of all, there's Short, who gives the kind of knockout Broadway performance that delights us even more because it's delivered by an interloper from Hollywood...
What seemed like the knockout punch came fiveplays later. From Harvard's 42-yard line,Stambaugh tried to find Falzone on a slant patternto his left. Senior safety Derek Yankoff read theplay perfectly, jumped in front of the receiver,and ran 64 yards down the right sideline, givingHarvard a 17-0 lead...
Last week in Lewiston, Me., Cassius Marcellus Clay, 23, fought a fight that did not seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...