Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite defeating Hartwick, 5-0, earlier in the season, Duke Coach John Rennie said he was happy Harvard got past Hartwick last weekend, because he would rather play the Crimson--a team the Devils have never met on the pitch...
...Sacrifice is admirable in that it goes for everything. Tarkovsky may have the distinction of being the loudest and most pitch-perfect primal screamer in the history of Cold War cinema. Other directors seem to be doing semaphore and dumbshow, by comparison. The Sacrifice, filmed with Swedish and British actors by Russia's premiere film auteur, comes off like everybody's end-of-the-world nightmare dubbed in raving Esperanto. It's not the kind of movie you'd put into a time capsule; it's the time capsule itself, with everything inside...
...perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...
Harvard took its first possession to midfield, but the Crimson's year-long curse--the fumble--again proved its undoing. A pitch from quarterback Tom Yohe to halfback Joe Pusateri never got there, and Yale took over...
Sorbara, on a pitch from Yohe, moved ahead for seven yards to midfield. O'Neil carried for a Harvard first down. On third down and five, Yohe threw for Pusateri, just out of his reach. O'Neil punted into the endzone for a touchback...