Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will always yearn for that early spring evening--whether it is in Providence, Minneapolis or Lake Placid--when the team will skate a lap around the rink. And instead of holding up a silver plaque, the squad will be holding a gold one for all those whose blood runs Crimson...
...breaststroke renewed the rivalry between Harvard's Mia Costello and Brown's Carolyn Ryder. Costello moved out to a large early lead, but a last-lap charge by Ryder brought the crowd to its feet. Costello hung on for the victory with a record time of 2:18.90, .60 of a second ahead of Ryder and two seconds below the NCAA and Olympic trial...
...accident that the two sit at opposite ends of any platform; any closer, and the friction could set the place on fire. When Bush lapses into his gee-whiz optimism, that rosy outlook that comes from having everything dropped into his lap, Dole looks as if he wants to stuff a sock into Bush's mouth. When Dole makes one of his sardonic asides that let observers know he is above the low company he is temporarily keeping, Bush appears so offended by the impropriety of it all -- no one made sharp remarks at the Bush family dinner table -- that...
Knight-Ridder's move ends years of high-stakes poker and initiates a risky game of chicken. By placing the future of the Free Press (and its 2,200 employees) squarely in the lap of the Attorney General, Knight-Ridder is gambling that Meese will have no choice but to save the paper. To up the odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young...
Graphic novels use, as the comics have for some time now, a whole battery of movie techniques. An artist like Miller or Dave Gibbons, who worked on Watchmen with Moore, can storyboard a zoom, a cross-fade, a jump cut or a lap dissolve with a deft immediacy that would beat many directors at their own game. Indeed, for anyone used to working the controls on a Laserdisc or VCR, freezing the frame or strobing the action, the expansive technique of graphic novels will seem comfortable and accessible...