Word: placid
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...great water to practice on," says Harvard's coach, sitting in front of Newell boathouse and motioning to the placid Charles River...
...York. Jackson's is the most riveting. Directed by hip, pixieish Filmmaker Spike Lee (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze), the stark, grainy, black-and-white commercial creates a feeling of tension and intensity. A stern image of Jackson shifts from 140th Street in Harlem to a placid suburban street in Tarrytown to suggest that drugs are "killing our children" in both neighborhoods...
...rink on which the NCAA Final Four was played was supposed to be advantageous to fast-skating teams. But the larger ice sheet in the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., did not make much difference...
...Lowell was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. So was Northeastern (by Division II Merrimack). Although Maine won its second-round series over Bowling Green (the first Hockey East playoff victory since 1985), it was dumped by Lake Superior State in Lake Placid...
...showed strength. The designers of England were, as ever, erratic and eccentric. There were signs of disappointment in retail reactions to the shows. Skirmishes over skirt length were blown, in the absence of any heavier action, into epic battles in a generally desperate attempt to bring heat to the placid proceedings. The short-skirt wrangle was a sure sign that the season was falling into something worse than a crisis. At least a critical condition can mean fever and ferment. This was looking more like fashion stasis. Paris was crucial. And Paris was not burning...