Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drivers. James Hunt took on the risk of racing through rain into fog-shrouded turns. Niki Lauda could not accept the dangers. Hunt finished the race in third place, scoring four points and claiming the driver's crown. Lauda pulled into the pits after one lap, surrendering his title and, with it, the mystique that drivers never bow to fear...
...does wondrous things on ski slopes, plays hand tennis and jogs two miles almost daily. On learning that a new campaign adviser had once been a competitive swimmer, Competitor Heinz's first reaction was a challenge: "I bet I could beat you if we went just one lap." Heinz is also a picky employer who has problems with his staff. After the spring primary he replaced his pollster, TV adviser and campaign manager. Last month he fired his new campaign manager...
...decision then fell into the lap of President Bok, who worked out the final proposal with Goodwin...
Japes Emerson '77 began to sense "a vague dissatisfaction with things" during his sophomore year at Harvard, and during the spring of that year, while he was casually pondering taking time off, "a perfect job just sort of fell into my lap." Emerson had been active in theater while at school, performing at the Loeb and in House productions. The perfect job was steady work as an actor with The Proposition, a Cambridge-based improvisational performing troupe. Emerson remained with The Proposition for 15 months, rising, due to a heavy turnover rate, from low man on the totem pole...
...clinching shot throws open all doors to analysis. Hari has allowed Sartorius to dissect her, leaving only a note, and Kelvin has decided to return to Earth, he approaches his home, where the film began, and in the doorway kneels at his father's feet, head buried in his lap, one of those poignant Bergmanesque poses. The camera begins to pull up and up, above the house, the trees, the adjacent lake, until we see the entire island surrounding the house, sitting--you guessed it--in the middle of the cranium-colored ocean Solaris...