Word: snakebites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SNAKEBIT A fine actor, David Marshall Grant (Angels in America), has been evolving into an even better playwright. With passion and sharp humor, his off-Broadway drama, about a trio of smart and smart-alecky friends trying to shift the course of their lives, digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems are all too universal...
...with assists from Jenny Schmidgall and Gretchen Ulion, scored the first ever U.S. women's Olympic goal. "It was nice to get a chance early and bury it," she beamed. "Now I don't have to worry about all those things hockey players worry about: hitting the post, getting snakebit and frustrated and off your game. For a second I let myself feel it. I sat down on the bench and said, 'That's pretty cool. I just scored a goal in the Olympics.' Then it was back to business...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sometimes, as Bob Dole says in the Visa ad, you just can't win. The Clinton Administration must have felt snakebit when, an hour before the scheduled State of the Union speech, the Simpson jury announced they had reached a verdict. As the White House frantically phoned networks to make sure they would not break away from covering the speech (NBC said they would use a split screen), spokesman Mike McCurry said that, despite the fuss over the Simpson verdict, the speech would go on as scheduled. One House Republican even asked if he could bring a portable...
...Angeles this week to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake -- that is, to call attention to the herculean effort made to set things right. Instead he faced natural devastation of a different sort. More than half the state -- the most populous in the Union, the most snakebit in anyone's memory -- is a disaster once again. Ten days of torrents have put thousands of people, north and south, out of their homes, killed 11, ruined crops, closed freeways, played hell...