Word: nosedives
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Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett...
"Mountains are metaphors," Harold says, but imminent death is not. The two men jest, curse and trade raw-tongued obscenities-all impotent delaying actions. Playwright Meyers tries to penetrate the core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the...
Then, Byrne had just nosed past former Mayor Michael Bilandic, owing the narrow margin to a severe snowstorm and the largest Black voter turnout in the city's history. Byrne immediately thanked her Black constituency and pledged that she would meet with Black leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, to...
In a sense, Part I forecloses an epoch. Ibsen encompasses the dying out of old legends and old gods, the anachronism of the early 19th century Byronic romantic hero and the ushering in of urban industrial society with its hard-nosed pragmatism.
Providence defenseman Randy Velishek nosed out teammate Kurt Kleinendorst and the elder Fusco in the coaches voting for ECAC Player of the Year Both Fusco and Kleinendorst had more impressive scoring statistics, but the Friars' senior co-captain has a reputation as an expert defensive-minded blueliner.