Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory came on a two-point conversion with 4:11 left in the game, after Brown had scored a touch-down to trail, 30-29. On the decisive play, quarterback Mark Whipple faked a dive play up the middle, rolled to his right, and flipped to Rick Villella just inside the endzone flag...
...still at the 12, Bosnic came on lined up as if to kick the field goal. Instead, Brown took the snap on the fake, rolled right, and underthrew Gary Quantock in the left flat. Now it was fourth down and once again Bosnic lined up by the right hash mark in the middle of that dark cockpit of emotion on the field...
Brown's pass fell short, and, as replays showed, was almost intercepted. Bosnic's kick from the right hash mark on fourth down sailed wide left...
...speech, and the plan, was far from encouraging. Corporate money managers, bankers and speculators, apparently believing that Stage II is too weak and will not work, sent the dollar plunging. The greenback fell to its lowest exchange rate since World War II against the yen, the deutsche mark, the guilder, the Belgian franc and the Danish and Norwegian crowns. The price of gold, which moves inversely to the dollar, reached a new peak of $233.70 an ounce. "We had not expected much," explained one Zurich foreign-exchange dealer about Carter's plan, "but neither had we expected so little...
...Gogh if, instead of shooting himself in the gut at 37, he had died full of age and honors in bed. The demand for Jackson Pollock's least scribble might be less fierce if a skidding car had not sent him the way of James Dean. And what of Mark Rothko, who killed himself with a razor and pills in 1970? In hindsight, death appeared to be the central image of Rothko's late, dark, claustrophobic canvases. Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that it did not really have? the operatic wholeness of art and life that...