Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only for a brief moment did the Bruins shine. On the first play of the game, Rukamp found Mike Geroux for a 73-yard pass to give the Bruins a first and goal at the Harvard two-yard line. Four plays later, Brown had to settle for a field goal...
...Lasorda also let the A's alumnus Mike Davis ("a buck-ninety hitter," as Dennis Eckersley moaned) swing away in the fifth game on a 3-and-0 count -- for a homer, of course. Wisest of all, he persisted with Hershiser in the treacherous moment of that last 5-2 victory, when the choirboy was so spooked he actually sang hymns. "Today I'm living out the dream," Hershiser had said, "of a kid who was funny looking, wore glasses, had arms down to his knees and ended up playing in the majors...
Delia Ruby Graff (Myra) and Douglas McPeek (David Bliss) hit their high points in an intimate love scene in the second act. This small moment is over-shadowed by their otherwise lackluster performances...
...strange ways, 1960 is sacred in grainy national memory. Americans feel a wistfulness about that election, if only because it was a moment when they and the world were younger. Was the race a classic encounter between two smart and well-matched athletes working the game in its last good moment? Maybe. The drama lingers in images of black and white as a moment of moral sunshine for Americans, or of remembered innocence. The candidates, youngish veterans, connected them to the days of their last good war. The election of 1960 was the end of America's postwar political order...
...these are decidedly long-term investments. For the moment, oil prices seem capable of deep downward swings. Indonesia's Subroto, the OPEC secretary- general, has warned that prices could fall as low as $5 per bbl. if Saudi Arabia and the other overproducers were to keep flooding the market. If such predictions fail to spur the group toward cooperation over the next few weeks, OPEC may be setting the stage for the oil-price collapse...