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Word: sparking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral argument is not long or preachily dwelt on. Nor is a romance that might have developed between Redford and Jane Alexander, playing the Governor's aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knothead | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Sophomore Jim Callinan, injured during much of the season, provided the offensive spark, leading all rushers with 73 yards on 18 carries, and scoring a touchdown on a second-quarter aerial connection from senior quarterback Burke St. John. And defensive back Pete Coppinger, another sophomore, picked off two passes to anchor the defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Season in an Afternoon | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...ahead goal came from attackman Ed Hughes. Until Saturday Hughes was the spark in the Adelphi offense, but Harvard's Haywood Miller employed his usual defensive stick wizardry, forcing the often dominating Hughes to cut his act short against the Crimson...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Stickmen Tip Adelphi, 15-12, | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Yale showed a spark of life in the longer distance events. Eli steeplechaser Mark Skehan braved the 80-degree heat and the water jumps to straggle in ahead of Harvard's Bruce Weber and Andy Regan, and his teammate Paul Erling put in a strong first-place performance in the endless 5000-meter...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Thinclads End With a Bang, Drub Yale, 117-45 | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Very few argue Cambridge shouldn't or can't encourage industrial development in the city. The form of those incentives and their effects may spark debate, but the need for new income and jobs will mute that controversy. "Idealistically, in ten to 15 years, what we will see is a very strong tax base with the neighborhoods intact," Vickery says...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Trouble Developing? | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

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