Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hannibal displays a disquieting streak of sadism that Harris' two previous novels involving Lecter largely avoided. In one of his many, rather portentous authorial asides, Harris states, "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?" If Hannibal is the answer, we're in real trouble...
...Giants in the 1958 championship game, the one that turned out to be the NFL's coming-out party. Or you could cite the three MVP awards, the 10 Pro Bowl games, the unfathomable record of touchdown passes in 47 straight games (people come closer to Joe DiMaggio's streak than to this one: next best after Unitas is Dan Marino, with 30). But Unitas' influence--vast and beyond challenge--is this: he was the first modern quarterback in a sport that the quarterbacks have owned ever since...
...Harvard itself was ranked in the national top 25 throughout the season, and the double-overtime victory over Columbia began an eight-game unbeaten streak that included wins over Ivy rivals Yale and Pennsylvania--the Quakers' first loss of the season--as well as the Harvard Invitational Championship...
...Harvard's unbeaten streak was stopped by then No. 3 Connecticut. The Crimson captured two more wins, following the loss, before heading into a Halloween day showdown versus then No. 8 Dartmouth to determine the Ivy League champion...
...women won, 99-46, to extend their win 11-year win streak over Yale...