Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeds of a good play--or several good plays, for that matter. Ribman never decided whether he was composing a metaphor for modern Europe, a guilty-secrets melodrama, a French philosophical play or an English drawing-room comedy. So he tosses elements of all these genres into his pot, and serves up the dramatic equivalent of broccoli cheese pasta--limp, stringy, with an occasional lumpy mass that may once have been a theme or plot twist now rendered unrecognizable by incompetent writing. Sweettable is talking-head drama of the worst sort, in which portentous declamations about the feel of people...
...problems with having lost to B.C. go beyond simply coming away from the 'Pot empty-handed yet again. Come seeding time in the NCAA tournament, this game could help decide which team gets a home-ice advantage and which must travel West in the quarter finals...
...player to man the fourth line's left wing....Butch Cutone, the 1983-84' Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has yet to record even an assist this season....This year's was the first Beanpot Tournament to have three overtime games....Always an unpredictable tournament, this year's 'Pot was no exception. Minnesota-Duluth is the only team to have played all four participants this season, and both UMD Captain Guy Gosselin and forward Brian Johnson had predicted B.C. would beat Harvard in the final. The Huskies were the surprise team of the tournament. As Gosselin had said "Northeastern...
Whenever the topics of UNESCO, the U.N.'s condemnation of Zionism as racism, or the organization's continued support for Pol Pot come up in discussion, U.N. apologists usually start talking of the U.N. as the champion of law in the nasty and brutish international arena...
...this would really be bothersome were it not for all the aggressors who merit the U.N.'s wrath more than logo usurpers. Maybe U.N. partisans with a yen for legal intrigue could come up with some type of lawsuit to force the organization to end its support for Pol Pot...