Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's water polo team seems to have a nose for scoring in the double digits. In its first two games, the Crimson scored 10 goals against MIT and 16 against Brown...
...hazy desert morning near Las Vegas, growling high-performance engines warn of unseen jet fighters. Images of war darken the imagination. Moments later four slender U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter-bombers are framed against a hot blue sky. From a distance they are lethal mosquitoes: stiletto nose, ! bulging belly, tightly angled wings. Passing over their target area, the fighters roll out into a curved line, vanishing behind a range of mountains. They are preparing to drop bombs on American soil, but groundlings needn't worry. The object is to dominate a point spread, not an enemy...
Like an airplane gaining altitude, the prominent nose tilts skyward; the hands beat the air in preparation for flight...
...rudeness and irresponsibility -- whaddaya want, we had to spice it up, it's entertainment -- and the NBC guys were nodding off because the idea was too, like, subtle for them. So Fusco reached into a green plastic trash bag, pulled me out, made me sneeze, and I wiped my nose on Tartikoff's sleeve. Haaah! He loved it! Well, I guess you can tell, we actually didn't make that part up. Or the trash...
...never experienced a Gogol short story, The Nose and From a Madman's Diary prove a superb introduction to his work. Even if you are a longstanding Gogol fan, this creative production may offer some pleasant surprises...