Word: score
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great−while it lasted. Sixteen seconds after the first game began, Guy Lafleur scored for the National Hockey League All-Stars against the Soviets' national team in Madison Square Garden. The final score was 4-2, and the honor and heritage of Canada and the U.S. were safe. But the Soviets rallied to win the second match, 5-4, and then humiliated the N.H.L. in the rubber game, 6-0. The debacle stirred musings about future showdowns with the Soviets in which national honor would be at stake...
Midway through the second period the networks cut the disaster off the air. No one ever did learn the final score. Congress scheduled hearings on the affair. Kissinger mournfully intoned that once again the Carter Administration had not understood the use of power: we should never have given the Soviets the ball...
...report card, Hamlisch's music and Sager's lyrics score no higher than Bs, but they possess a finger-snapping vitality that turns explosive in the title number. A well-earned A goes to Douglas W. Schmidt's stunningly sophisticated sets, Tharon Musser's evocative lighting and Ann Roth's clever costumes. Great joy has come to Shubert Alley...
Harvard controlled the meet throughout, winning the first six events and piling up a 42-10 lead (after the one-meter diving) before switching on the cruise control and allowing Yale to win three of the final four events to make the score look respectable...
Enter Paris K.C. Barclay, who puts Franklin's words to a variety of original tunes without trying to out-cute his collaborator. The score combines a variety of musical eras and styles to succeed on two levels. Not only is almost every song smoothly professional, but taken as a whole, the score represents a comprehensive and a sophisticated satire of musical comedy...