Word: serials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Blackman has stressed the ground game offensively, his defense has encouraged opposing quarterbacks to go for the big serial plays. In 86 attempts against Cornell, signalcallers have hit 46 passes for 584 yards...
From that point on, the Harvard defense completely stalled the Lions' running game, and though Witkowski put on an impressive serial show, Columbia couldn't quite prevent the Crimson's 27-16 opening...
...concentration of spirit, to make Ibsen's great dramas burst into bright flame. This brushfire production, imported to Broadway from Washington's Kennedy Center, dampens the spirit of the text and absolutely extinguishes its immediacy. Burnt down to basic melodrama, Ghosts creaks like a mediocre television serial. Its terrible symmetry has here all the impact of a bad night at Falcon Crest...
...with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed watching a political serial...
Reagan has sat, wondering at the irony of it all, as his briefers have traced how captured American M16s, their serial numbers clumsily altered, were shipped around the world from Viet Nam to the rebels in El Salvador. The President has observed the painstaking accumulation of evidence that Moscow's clients have used poison gas (the deadly "yellow rain") in Southeast Asia and that the Soviets have themselves employed it in Afghanistan-perhaps out of frustration that all their troops and equipment have been unable to break down a stubborn resistance by the mountain tribes to military occupation...