Word: shots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While his teammates napped, Roy came up with 42 blocks--including a sliding save on a Mitrovic shot early in the contest and a jump-kick combination that defused a dangerous one-on-one at the end of regulation...
...Crimson netminders only faced 17 shots the entire contest. Tri-Captain Jennifer White made all 17 saves in two-and-a-half periods before being relieved by Gillian D'Souza. D'Souza, who came in for the last half of the third period, did not have to stop a single shot...
Palmer makes little pretense to literalism, preferring to relate the composer's spiritual odyssey through stark images. Shot mostly in gritty black and white, the film often turns phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state...
...complained, "the more clearly you demonstrate that the mystery is not really worth writing"). Yet what he knew most of all, as one of Hollywood's great theoreticians, was that a writer cannot afford to be too removed from the streets, and that what the public needs is a shot of romantic realism. T.S. Eliot was a civil man, and a public-minded writer, and so it is only right that his anniversary be marked in public ceremonies; Chandler was the laureate of the loner, and so his admirers recall him now in quieter ways, alone, unnoticed, with a light...
...were read in front of a map that showed Palestine before Israel was created. And Abul Abbas, the demon of the Achille Lauro, was embraced by Arafat and seated as a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee; Abul Abbas smirked that Leon Klinghoffer, the 69-year-old American shot in his wheelchair and dumped overboard, "maybe was trying to swim...