Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snaps out of it, perhaps realizing that he's just made the kind of comparison he had boasted about avoiding. He savors these small imaginative flights. In trying to explain himself in the past year, he has invoked such figures as Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, the Lone Ranger, George Washington and Christ in the garden at Gethsemane on the night before the Crucifixion ("Let this cup passeth from me"). The roster suggests that Starr needs to place himself in the company of heroes and saviors. "I can't be the judge in my own case," he says, and maybe...
...presence known from the start of the show and, at center stage for the remainder, he kept the intensity flowing and the tone of the show light as he alternatingly teased and supported the other band members. At one point, he challenged Natasha Joseph, double second player and the lone woman in the group, to a little duel. While she lacked Gulston's dynamic stage presence, she showed him what was up as he, dripping sweat and looking as if he was in pain, tried to stump her with his instrument. Joseph was flawless as she effortlessly repeated his tunes...
Brown (5-1-3, 5-1-3)--the lone team to defeat Harvard this year--sits directly behind Princeton in the standings, trailing by just a single point. The Bears, winners of two straight conference games, head into the break with the momentum needed to win the ECAC crown...
...want to get something done, you have to put it where it hurts for the administration--their reputation," Swasey says. "It's easier to say 'no' to a lone U.C. member than to a whole lot of students when they are put on the spot at a forum like we are advocating...
Sawyer turned up little actual news beyond Starr's admission that his office should have kept Linda Tripp on a tighter leash. The real revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind...