Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medal ceremony, cradling her in his arms as the crowd gave her a standing ovation. "We didn't want to march out without Kerri," said her teammate Amanda Borden. "We kept telling her, we couldn't have done it without her." Strug's gutsy performance should not overshadow the brilliant display by Moceanu and Dominique Dawes, who posted strong score across the board. Or Shannon Miller, who added her first gold to her five medals won in Barcelona. Or Jaycie Phillips, Amy Chow and Borden who rounded the gold medal team. "This was a team of ultimate individuals," Bela Karolyi...
...course, Reinhard's accomplishments on the softball diamond tend to overshadow a solid basketball career. A role player behind such talents as Tammy Butler '95, senior Elizabeth Proudfit and sophomore Allison Feaster, Reinhard was nevertheless twice named Harvard's Defensive Player of the Year and led the Crimson in three-point shooting during her senior season. In the final game of her basketball career, Reinhard drained five of Harvard's record-setting 16 three-pointers to finish the contest with 15 points...
...computers marketed around the world. Now it sells less than 9%, and its machines seem to be disappearing from offices (except in the publishing business). Without market share, the worry goes, software companies will not write programs that entice more users, and market share will shrink further. Such uncertainties overshadow Apple's success last year at introducing an entire new line of computers, the Power Macintosh, which is elegantly designed and performs well and dependably compared with similar machines from other companies...
...that ends the promising lives of babies, replaces fists with exploding bullets and kills for a pair of sneakers. Congratulations, naturally, to any police force that can bring down the number of violent crimes that occur. But the fact that fewer crimes are happening in a community should not overshadow the true tragedy: that these crimes occur at all. DANIEL CRONIN New York City Via E-mail...
...relief as August's hypochondria sister Delia, an acclaimed author with a scandalous history. Her character was supposed to be livelier than everyone else's during her scenes, and she realized her potential without being melodramatic. Neither she nor Lewis had many spoken lines, but they never tried to overshadow their fellow cast members. They slipped into their roles with a familiarity and understanding that was not reached by anyone else in the cast. Truly, Lewis's quiet but sharp one-liners and Gotlieb's outspoken, often obnoxious punch-lines brought a great sense of relief to an otherwise melancholy...