Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal wiretap at the trial of a Brazilian cocaine smuggler. At the same time, the Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made...
DISNEY IS NOT a paradigm of cool. Not that nature movies generally are, but most viewers will without a doubt recall with a wince those semi-documentaries which manage to cram the grand expanses of nature into the vacuum tube confines of the American psyche with a liberal lubricaiton of cuteness. You know, the bear cubs clumsily gamboling about, choreographed to silly bassoon music and chortling narration ("Well, I guess our little friends got more than they bargained for when they tried to get into that beehive...
Harvard's record dropped to 5-3, but the Crimson's impressive showing against the top-ranked team in New England and a semi-finalist in last year's NCAA's was encouraging UConn, meanwhile, raised its mark to an oh-so-impressive 15-0-1 and did it without three of its starters...
There are journalists who see their work as a semi-official responsibility in a democracy, like another branch of government. On the inside too long, they become bureaucrats, watching that everyone meets certain rules of conduct, distributing each candidate's publicity fairly in their pages, pigeon-holing the latest events in their columns...
...wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event-an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. In what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child...