Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth set the stage for the probable championship shoot-out, with sophomore quarterback Frank Polsinello continuing the magic he used to bounce Harvard last week. Polsinello passed for 120 yards to receivers Jack Daly and Shawn Teevens, and got another big game out of halfback Sean Maher, who rushed for 144 yards...
...order to buy stocks. Then in January he set off a 23.80-point drop in one trading day with the command "sell everything." Even though stocks continued generally up for nearly five months after that before they started their current down phase, Granville insisted that he had the magic formula for Wall Street...
...financiers: "The societies that have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled nor necessarily the biggest in size nor the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace...
...there are more compelling reasons than fund-raising efficacy for the school to maintain the Kennedy name. Tarnished as John F. Kennedy '40 may have been by revisionist historians, his name retains a certain magic for most of those who consider themselves progressive. Kennedy's association with some of the very values that until recently the K-School had conspicuously ignored--like the quest for social equality on the part of women and minorities--should serve as an ever present reminder to K-School administrators of just how far they must go before their institution can proudly uphold the Kennedy...
...object of Smithson's passion, becomes instead the most memorable thing in the film. Streep, almost by accident, takes over the stage whenever she enters. Irons is good--his aristocratic gentility and his moments of anger both stand out clearly--but he can't compare to Streep's magic. Streep, as the Scarlet Woman of Lyme Regis, has to convey an obscure, flighty vulnerability, always looking away from the camera and Smithson. And always she has at her disposal that piercing stare--a private look that lets the inner fires shine through the private mists. She builds an impenetrable wall...