Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...
...remainder of the schedule proved a seesaw ride for UMass, with easy wins over weaker Atlantic-10 opponents lifting the team to a 7-0-1 conference record and a lopsided 3-0 loss to sixth-ranked Texas A&M providing a more accurate measure of the team's progress. The regular season ended on a down note with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Dayton in the Atlantic-10 tournament final...
...great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...
Fans were treated to a seesaw battle in which neither team put together more than a four point lead after the opening minutes. During the course of the game, the lead changed hands nine times...
...Congress to do nothing on health this year, rather than attempt a last-minute compromise. The main reason for this retreat -- as some cynical lawmakers have known all along -- is that there is no simple way to make health insurance secure, affordable and portable. One reason is the seesaw effect: forcing down insurance costs for older Americans and those who get sick can force insurers to raise premiums beyond the reach of many among the young and the healthy. Result: growing ranks of uninsured...