Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season's end, the cagers produced an "Ivy League Shuffle" video (this was the year of the Chicago Bears) as well as a 20-6 record (9-3 in the Ivies). They even entertained slim hopes of receiving an invitation to the NCAA tournament...
...prospects for further Harvard success in the tournament are slim at best, however. Syracuse hasn't lost--at home, on the road, anywhere. A win in the Carrier Dome this Sunday would rank as Harvard's biggest victory ever...
...means that are likely to provoke more trouble in the future. The workers have managed to deliver a message of defiance and rage, but they are not able to transform it into political gains. In the empty space between those embittered stances, the prospects for productive dialogue are slim...
...good? Many times, Harvard had been ahead by slim margins in the fourth period, while the opposition tried to open up the offense. But that's when the Crimson gets more animated. Harvard players start picking up their defensive assignments 40 or 50 feet from the goal...
...really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last Emperor, with its stern, sumptuous sprawl, more likely earned a decorous, distanced respect in a slim year. The other nominees for Best Picture were three comedies and one high-tech yuppie horror movie -- not the Academy's favorite genres. By contrast, Bertolucci's true-life fable of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, China's last monarch, had all the familiar Academy-epic goods. It rips turbulent drama...