Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season ended where the last one did, on a Saturday night at a Regional which found the Crimson at the end of its rope and one day shy of the likes of UCLA...
...Cable Guy may have been what made that movie, his previous venture into somewhat more demanding fare, a box-office disappointment. Even his broadest comedies have their moments of genuine pathos. For instance: the scene in Dumb and Dumber in which, having briefly come to the end of his rope, Carrey's character stares out a window and says, "You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody. I'm sick and tired of having nobody." Sharing...
Thomson points out that if one or two large Asian parties default on their derivative contracts, computer screens around the world can be hit within seconds and instantly threaten other contracts. "It's like a bunch of climbers on a mountain all tied by a rope. But if one climber slips and falls into a crevasse, he can quickly drag the other climbers to their end with little chance of time for rescue," says Thomson...
...some analyses, it could rope in literallythousands of people on campus who are required topass along information," he said. "That is toobroad a reporting regime," he said...
Somebody give O.J. SIMPSON some more rope, please. During a daylong interview in Los Angeles with Ruby Wax, Britain's most irrepressible American, Simpson went on about his wet dreams in prison and how "the availability of women now is more than ever in my life, which I find strange." (He's not alone there.) Out walking with Wax, Simpson was accosted by Angelenos to sign autographs and shake hands, while some told him they thought he was a killer. When asked if that hurt him, Simpson said no. As if all that weren't charming enough...