Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eagle goalie Paul Skidmore was called on only 20 times in registering the first shutout against a Harvard hockey squad in 163 games-the first since the consolation round at the 1971 NCCA hockey championships, when Denver University edged Joe Cavanaugh and Co. 1-0 somewhere in the Midwest...
...conservative businessman, Barnes had shielded himself so carefully behind the layers of his organization that it was virtually impossible to trace drug sales back to him. None of his cars or his several homes and apartments are registered in his name. In 1973, after placing him under round-the-clock surveillance for eight months, local authorities managed to arrest him only on a weapons charge-but the charges were dismissed. On one occasion, Barnes playfully led his police tails on a wild-goose chase through Harlem, making 100 stops at grocery stores, bars and neighborhood social clubs...
Executives of The Santa Corporation became worried, afraid because those who believed in the ways of the old Claus wanted to return to the old ways, to one day of Christmas a year. And an end to year-round Christmas would mean ruin for the corporation, and an end to the modern Santaland way of life...
...land became choked and glutted with the unwanted and untouched presents that kept coming out of The Santa Corporation's plants by the truckload. And while the company kept spewing out holiday paraphernalia like a merry-go-round with no brakes, the Clausists erected a tremendous monument outside the gates of the comapny's main factory. They built high and strong an image of Santa Claus, the long-dead manic sleigh jockey who had become their symbol. And on the pedestal of the figure, they inscribed a long-forgotten and poorly-understood poem that one of the ancients had written...
...mime into the production. but their efforts tend to be too confusing and ineffective. For example, many of the lines spoken by Miranda (Andrea Eisenberg) and Caliban (Marc Baum) are repeated a bear or two later by their doubles and/or triples. The result is a boring, seemingly endless round-robin effect that slows the tempo and makes it harder for the actors to maintain dramatic tension...