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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's next scoring binge came when Fine dropped a layup and then laced a picture-perfect alley-oop pass to Booker to maintain the 11-point...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Hoopsters Blitz Brown With First Half Blowout | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...play's advertising representatives have asked the critics not to reveal the plot, but this seems rather silly--Deathtrap is tricky in a very predictable way. One has little chance to be confused: Bruhl constantly discusses the theatrical potential of the murders he commits, and ten lines rarely pass without a plot recap. It's rather like the old math problem about the frog in the slippery well who cannot jump three feet without falling back two. In addition, Levin makes his characters as self-conscious as his playwrighting. "Nothing recedes like success," quips Bruhl, and is so taken with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Throes | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...passage of the new criminal code in the House are uncertain. Dershowitz rated the chances as excellent, hoping that the House will strike down the Dole amendment. Countryman, vowing to continue his opposition to the bill, said that it is "nip and tuck as to whether the bill will pass...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Professors React to Criminal Code Bill | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...While this year's contest between Denver and Dallas had its moments of suspense, perhaps the most exciting event of the evening-and arguably the Super Bowl's premier athletic feat-was a 60-yd. bomb thrown by 13-year-old Alfonzo Walls Jr. in the Punt, Pass and Kick finals before the game. Walls was on target too, a boon Craig Morton sorely lacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Letting Go | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...that the kids are a sweated artistic proletariat, forced the documentarians to avoid any overt suggestion that there might be more pain, narrowness of intellectual focus and disappointment in the children's lives than is shown in this overly sweet film. It is assuredly a harmless way to pass a rainy weekend afternoon with one's own kids, though the commercially made and fictional The Turning Point, for all its melo drama, actually offers a truer glimpse of ballet life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft Shoe | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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