Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening round match, eighth seeded Harvard faced off against top seed Queens College (22-6) confident that it could pull off the upset...
Catchy, sure, but do you really want to bring him home to meet the folks? Still, against all odds, on Odelay, Beck managed to pull from his grab bag of idiosyncracies something somehow coherent, edgy and adorable all at the same time. Maybe it was the lovable geeky cowboy thing, or all that talk of him capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into...
Williams theorized that Winfrey's involvement in the movie has increased her pull as a media icon and makes her a candidate for the transformation of cultural ideals...
...Kosovo Liberation Army moved straight back into the towns the Serbs had occupied. As if to emphasize that this is far from over, Serb paramilitaries left the town of Malisevo and then suddenly swept back in a few hours later for a firefight with the KLA. "If the Serbs pull out enough troops, NATO will suspend its activation order for air strikes," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But that doesn't mean the Serbs won't come back two weeks later and retake the towns from which they've withdrawn...
Oprah is a treasure, and I am just one of millions who feel so very grateful for the inspiration she willingly gives [CINEMA, Oct. 5]. She continues to seek ways to pull us toward honesty, truth, goodness and reality. I always feel touched by this woman. She has wings. PATRICE NELSON Chester, Conn...