Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Growing up in Great Neck, N. Y., Grossman learned his tennis a the Pro Washington Tennis Academy, where Vitas Gerulaitis and John McEnroe also mastered their games. He played on the Eastern Tennis Association tournament circuit, ranking third in the state his senior year. He never made it to the national circuit, because he spent the summer after his senior year out with mononucleosis...
Mondale may be ready for the presidency, but a political albatross called the Carter Administration still hangs around his neck...
...closed her book softly, put it down, then placed her hands on the sides of my neck...
...Sayles wants us to feel excited or depressed, he simply turns on the stereo. Instead of letting the players act, he pounds the mood home with driving rock. It's there when Sheik first strides into the school cafeteria. It's there when a wide-eyed Jill watches couples neck in Joey D's. It's there when the couple play hooky for a day drive down to the shore. And it's at Sarah Lawrence parties and late-night car chases and scenes in which Sheik drives non-stop from Miami to New York to confront Jill...
Animal Behaviorist Benjamin Beck of the University of Illinois at Chicago calls attention to still another human delusion, the species bias. Says he jokingly: "On tests for giraffes, where intelligence might be equated with neck length, humans test out below horses and ostriches...