Word: overset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure of nurture but also as dominating, threatening, all-ab-sorbing. The sense of a voracious emotional need that beats behind some of Fairweather's coolest and most "classical" friezelike paintings is nothing other than the desire for integration, resolved in art as formal harmony-but imperiled and sometimes overset, because it bore the print of a harsher, more primal necessity...
...this year, that exhiliration turned to pain, as top-seeded Harvard junior Jeremy Fraiberg battled him to a decisive fifth-game. Fraiberg prevailed in an overset match to nail the coffin on the Elis...
Still, the three-game difference is deceiving. Crimson junior Mary Greenhill lost in a fifth game overset to second-seeded Mary Foulk, and Freshman Heather Sullivan lost, 15-13, in the fifth game to Margaret Van Orman. That's just three points away from the 5-4 score the first time the two squash powers...
...George Polsky was playing games with his opponent, he played two too many. Rusty from a year off, Polsky played a tight five-game match, winning the final one in an overset match point...