Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only when it had gone down 14-9 did the Crimson snap back to its senses, making a legitimate play to at least steal one game. Harvard fought off nine match points while slowly working its way back into the game, trying at 14-14 on a spectacular pair of blocks from Lewis and Olsen...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
...primitive? Then go with Twelve Monkeys (1995). Devastating plague, Terry Gilliam-style. The director gets a decent turn out of Bruce Willis, a better one out of Brad Pitt, and treats us to a spectacular vision of humanity crammed underground when germs and wild animals rule the streets of a Philadelphia far in the future. At least street crime is down...
That fierce self-assessment, with its apparent reference to Kwan's spectacular fall last year, is magnified by Lipinski's appearance. There is a moment during every competition when the audience is reminded of just how young--and tiny--Lipinski really is. Just before it's her turn on the ice, as she waits for her name to be called, she skates around with the flower girls. She carves small circles around them, head down, eyes focused, concentrating on the program she is about to perform. At 4 ft. 10 in. and 80 lbs., with her hair pulled back...
PUCC was big and rowdy and didn't give a damn about mandates or proper roles for the council, and it had a spectacular track record of strongly advocating responsible politics and pushing through important student services from anonymous HIV testing to the funding of rape aggression defense classes...