Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present-day scenes of the movie, Woody is happily married to a beautiful, young, sexy wife (surprise, surprise) with whom he adopts a child. The kid turns out to be a genius, and Allen, for reasons unexplained, throws himself into a quest to find the kid's biological mother who he assumes is brilliant as well...
Basketball as birth control: the sublimating trajectory of ball to hoop cartooned the urgent, intimate quest of sperm to ovum--and, so to speak, contracepted it. Basketball converted raw adolescent pagan fuel to a useful chastity--that is, to play. For years when I saw teenagers on the court shooting baskets, I would say to myself, "I know what's on your minds, you dirty boys...
Edging B.U., the fourth-ranked team in the Northeast, makes Harvard's quest for a national ranking more realistic...
Anticipation buoys these sweepstakes-hardened pros as they embark on yet another chapter in their eternal quest for the perfect "face at the door," one that can be videotaped for use in the company's ubiquitous television commercials. Raw emotion sells, and Prize Patrol members consider themselves connoisseurs of screams and tears. The all-time champion is Emma Taylor of Gary, Indiana, whose joyful if repetitive response to being declared a winner earned her the nickname "the thank-you-Jesus lady...
During the integration of Southern universities in the 1960's, protests may have raged outside the classroom; but inside the schoolhouses, students were at least able to obtain an education. It is lamentable to see that Friday's action inhibited fellow students' quest for knowledge and violated the principle of freedom of peaceable assembly. Considering that each Harvard class costs over $2,200, and that "Liberalism and Conservatism" has scheduled twenty-two hours of class sessions this term, this ten-minute outburst cost each student over fifteen dollars...