Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shut the running game off, and that pleased me. The pass defense was another story, however," Restic said after the game. "We had trouble getting the rush on him [Witkowski]. A lot of times, he had open receivers, and we couldn't stop...
...Witkowski stepped up in the pocket, clear of the Harvard rush, he noticed tight end Dan Upperco standing alone in the center of the end zone and hit him with a perfect spiral for the final score of the day. Columbia's try for a two-point conversion failed...
Tokenism is, of course, unfair to qualified men, who risk getting trampled underfoot in the headlong rush to place women--any women--in high positions. It also denigrates women and tends to limit the number of real women powerholders, the Sansone candidacy being a case in point. It also keeps women out of major positions which carry more than symbolic import. State parties are quite willing to nominate women for lower, largely figurehead posts, but there are currently no women governors. Only two gubernatorial candidates nationwide today are female...
...protests, Orr says, "We tend not to, simply because we don't have to--we have Radcliffe, and we have the alumni." RUS has a strong body of alumni who share many of its general concerns, she says. It is "always a real rush," she adds, to receive letters from alumni who have read of an RUS goal in Second Century, the Radcliffe publication, and write, "Here's a copy of the letter I sent to President...
Director Edward Stone has set a frenetic pace that jams to a halt, like traffic in a rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...