Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from disillusioning the team, the loss to Brandeis will be viewed as a challenge and could spark a strong comeback, Powell said. "We're the kind of team where it's better not to be unbeaten. We get mad, and then we go ahead and win," she said...
Those who can see past the way she walks don't disagree. Soccer coach Bob Scalise, who saw Ferrante's overtime goal ice the Ivy Championship game against Brown, and her goal in the 70th minute of the Eastern semifinal against UMass spark the Harvard comeback, calls her "a true competitor." Boyfriend Charlie Corry, adversary in innumerable crossword puzzles and squash games goes as far as "high strung, highly energetic...
...several nearly inaudible scenes, like those ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark hilarity, and one outraged cry of "Madam!" to a thoroughly confused Olivia is the show's funniest moment...
...knew it was all over when Brown tried an onside kickoff to start the second half. It didn't work. Harvard took over near midfield, and any comeback spark the Bruins might have had never materialized...
...rather tiresomely and foolishly repeats that young Abrahams represents "a different God and a different mountain." As Cross plays the stereotypical Jew, so Gielgud plays the stereotypical Cambridge/Oxford master: stiff collar, talk of good sportsmanship, supercilious expression, after-dinner liqueur. His upper-crust old-schoolishness lacks a human spark; consequently the character appears a flat cardboard mockup of the real thing...