Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the score tied for the seventh time, the closing minutes of the drama seemed endless to everyone but the Crimson. For the last part of the game the Harvard squad fell prey to the Princeton pressure tactics, and when with one minute left Tiger Carl Nissen pegged one from the crease the Crimson stickmen couldn't rebound...
...families who presumably can afford to eat--a poignant irony for a farming and gambling man. For the system hurts you as often as it rewards you, and once you're on the treadmill there's no getting off; like an eagle with claws sunk deep into its prey, the Great American Dream fights you until you can no longer fight back...
...Crimson harriers fell prey to howling winds and a ruthless Tiger squad, losing their spring season opener to Princeton, 95-68, on Saturday...
Cyra McFadden's comic bestseller, The Serial, was as much journalism as satire. In order to devastate her prey, the trendy, upper-middle-class denizens of Marin County, Calif., McFadden did not resort to barbed wisecracks: she merely let her characters speak for themselves. Like Director-Writer Paul Mazursky in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, she understood that the affluent, desperate hipsters of the Far West are their own worst enemies. There is no point in making fun of people who are already self-parodies...
Under Herbert Ross's assured hand, the actors perform with impeccable honesty. Leibman moves from farcical jocularity to bleeding anguish. In a sketchy role, Van Patten displays warming femininity. When she is not biting into a juicy comic line, Manoff clings like a valorous terrier to her prey of hope...