Word: shocker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...puts the line on us, too. If we don’t take the opportunity to finish that point, then they’ll crush it down our throat.”Harvard’s encounter with Wichita State began and ended in a similar fashion. The Shockers threw out the initial ace on its first serve before sealing the deal with another two at the end of the third set. Wichita State’s serving skills plagued the Crimson all night—the Shockers tallied fourteen points on aces alone. Serving also hindered Wichita State, however...
...Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi; in theaters 5/29) Note to bankers: don't cut off loans to your customers, at least if one is a crazy Gypsy. Alison Lohman does and suffers gorily in this schlocky shocker from the director of Spider-Man and Evil Dead...
...other debut film, the gypsy-curse shocker Drag Me to Hell, looks to come in an O.K. third, with $16.6 million. Like Up, it's a film with no stars, but a star director of sorts: Sam Raimi, who did the Spider-Man movies and, ages ago, the Evil Dead cult trilogy. Credit Drag Me to Hell's success to a generous PG-13 rating and to the loyalty of genre fans who haven't been able to go to a new horror film in, gee, almost two months. (See TIME's video "Making Drag Me to Hell More Hellish...
...Green got the better of the Crimson in two low-scoring games. “It was a very emotional day on Sunday—last home games, Senior Day,” Vertovez said. “After we lost that first game, it was kind of a shocker. We didn’t expect to lose that first one and in the second we put too much pressure on ourselves and that’s when things fell apart. It’s not like we gave it to them on Sunday, they played better than...
...Really? Well then stop chatting it up in the Lamont café and go do some work. 3. Don’t announce to the world when you finish your finals by changing your Gchat status to “DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D” Here’s a shocker: some of the people on your contacts may actually still have finals (!!). So save your glee till after the last day. Except, even then, try not to brag about your summer employment—some of us will be using our reading periods to figure that...