Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What were the chances that Bradley, a 46 percent free throw shooter who had already hit three of four for the night, would sink two more...
...pageants (Angels in America) and musicals (Falsettos). Some soar into poignant metaphor. Prelude to a Kiss and Marvin's Room are really about responsibilities of marriage and family; the plays say that relationships of love or blood must be sustained even as the objects of our affection sink into confusion or decay. Love means always having to be there...
...just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think, and so sink below our selves into a place far deeper than mere thought allows. In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think...
...business as it removes from the agenda -- maybe more. Even if a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Somalia starts by Jan. 20, as Pentagon officials still hope, it will be up to Clinton to determine when and how the rest can be pulled out without letting Somalia sink back into the starvation, looting and clan warfare that the American and other Western soldiers were sent to relieve...
...play, Washington was able to beat the Crimson down court, upfake, draw a foul and sink the lay-up. The play epitomized Harvard's less than spectacular transition defense...