Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earn the full $350,000 incentive portion of his contract, Clemens would have to be the American League playoff and World Series Most Valuable Player, repeat as the AL MVP, make the AL All-Star team and repeat as the league's Cy Young Award winner...
Will the Spartans become the first team to capture a second consecutive title since Boston University accomplished this in 1971-'72? Or is there too much pressure to repeat...
Ronald Reagan is not necessarily doomed to repeat the dispiriting pattern of failure that has hounded too many recent Presidents. If the Iran-contra scandal has left many Americans uneasy about Reagan's grip on his job, last week's performance demonstrated that the still popular President retains at least some of his powers. But if he is to recoup, he will have to resist his tendency to rely on theatrics rather than hard work. As the President and the First Lady departed for Camp David last week, Reagan cheerfully bantered with a group of young supporters. Talking about...
...some 500 such missiles in Europe, while NATO has none. The U.S. draft treaty tabled in Geneva includes provisions for NATO to match the Soviets' shorter- range systems. But even if Moscow is cooperative, efforts to equal Soviet strength would require new NATO deployments. That could provoke a painful repeat of the parliamentary debates and ugly street protests that attended the decision on the Pershing II and cruise missiles...
Morricone may express occasional dissatisfaction, as when he admits, "I feel antipatico. My face, when I see myself in a mirror, I don't like it. It's all wrong." Modesty is never absent ("I always repeat myself -- each composer has a musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they...