Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCabe and Mrs. Miller undermines the modern mythification of the American past, The Long Goodbye (1973) exposes the improbability of a more contemporary American hero: the private eye, as created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is an anachronism. His stocks in trade--intelligence, independence and integrity--are pitifully inadequate weapons with which to confront modern, large-scale, organized corruption...
AMHERST, Mass.--It had to happen. It was just a matter of time. On the practice field this week. On the team bus as it weaved its way past the foliage buffs taking advantage of the Indian Summer afternoon along western Massachusetts' narrow back roads. It was a feeling. You knew that this was THE game...
...Nelson started the scoring play with a cross to junior Dave Eaton. Eaton shot, collected his own rebound, and fed quickly to freshman Mauro Keller-Sarmiento, who drilled it past the fallen netminder. Harvard continued its ferocious attack, but the first half ended with the score...
...midfielders and forwards responded with this season's best 45 minutes of soccer. Eaton tallied the booter's second goal, taking a slick pass from Nelson, squeezing through two defensemen and firing a low shot past goalie Cole. Twenty minutes later, Steve Yakopec took a beautiful Michael Smith lead and sprinted past the fatigued fullbacks for the game's final score...
Studies by such groups as the World Health Organization and the World Bank have noted a sharp drop in the peak age of child malnutrition in these areas as a result of the "alarming" decrease in breastfeeding in the past two decades. Babies are now commonly suffering from the deadly combination of malnutrition and diarrhea--often caused by bacteria-infested, diluted or ill-prepared formula--as early as three to six months after birth. In light of the fact that the critical period for brain development is the first two years of life, this situation is indeed tragic...