Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krapp, stumbling through meaningless and totally self-referential rituals with his tapes, exemplifies life at an absolute standstill, paralyzed further by the authoritative presence of technology. His endless recycling of a few sparse impressions via his tapes serves only to lock him into the same room, situation, round of thought at the only new material comes in bizarre introspective snatches, such as his sensual enjoyment of the word "spool" (happened on by accident in the tape-playing instructions), or his momentary impulse to look up in a dictionary a word he once knew...
...University of Connecticut, which topped Harvard, 3-1, earlier this year, has a lock on the Northeastern slot, leaving the Crimson to battle for a wild-card berth...
Busby has devised a kind of "political physics." He figures that the Democrats will have a lock on the House of Representatives for years because since the 1950s, Republicans have never been able to gain more than 192 seats, and that the Republicans cannot be dislodged from the White House in 1984 because of the historical pattern of the Electoral College system. Not much is going to change that arrangement, he feels, short of economic catastrophe or Armageddon. Busby...
...NCAA will invite 16 teams to its post-season tournament, and probably at least two will be from the Northeast. The third-ranked University of Connecticut holds a lock on one of those tournament bids, leaving UMass. Harvard and Springfield to light for the remainder. The tournament selection process is not connected with the national poll. and the selection committee is free to invite any 16 teams...
...that Harvard played without errors for the entire match. In several instances, momentum swung in favor of ENC as a direct result of unforced Crimson flaws. In particular, the second game--which Harvard eventually won 15-10--saw an 11-3 Crimson advantage dwindle to a virtual dead-lock, 11-10. During that period, a series of missed blocks, serves and spikes characterized Harvard's performance...