Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, you may recall, Penn nosed out Cornell on the final day of the season, 31-21, in a battle of Ivy undefeateds to capture its fifth crown. But Saturday's upset--it was Penn's first home loss to an Ivy opponent in six years--indicates that Cornell...
The big picture is bright in Tinseltown. Scoring its best summer season ever, the movie industry racked up a record $1.6 billion in ticket sales. That nosed out the previous mark of $1.58 billion achieved in 1984. Back then it was a handful of such blockbusters as Indiana Jones and...
McEwan bridges the chasm between private anguish and public policy with a death-defying story, inventive, eventful and affirmative without being sentimental. Entwined with the Lewises' tragedy is the tale of Stephen's friend Charles Darke, a former editor and, as a junior minister, author of a hard-nosed government...
The central fiction about the hard-cover repackaging of Answered Prayers is the presumption that it is a novel, unfinished or otherwise. Rather, it is an act of merchandising that will divert attention from A Capote Reader, a generous collection of traditional fiction and imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation...
In mid-July on a tidal creek among Georgia's coastal islands, six people ceremoniously untied the gates of an underwater pen that for the previous 28 days had contained two very civilized bottle-nosed dolphins. The finny pair disappeared from view. Moments later they surfaced upstream, defying predictions that...