Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film collapses miserably in the last 15 seconds--indeed, it is the first time in his career that Van Sant has stuck with a happy ending, and it dilutes the rest of the film's impact. Instead of a powerful character study, we're left to ponder a sudden dive into mainstream cheesiness...
Junior Dustin DeNunzio, the 1995 Rookie of the year, had his streak of seven straight wins broken, but it took a sudden-death overtime loss to Tom Angle of Clarion in the finals to do so. Like his sophomore classmate, DeNunzio is currently ranked No. 5 in the country and appears to be on the upswing...
...arrest minors attempting to illegally purchase alcohol. The first two weeks of the program's operation have resulted in the arrest and conviction of two Harvard students. The underhanded and arbitrary nature of the program, the questionable allocation of manpower that it demands and the inappropriate motivation for this sudden crackdown all lead us to condemn this latest measure from the Cambridge Police Department...
RACING HEART In patients with an irregular heartbeat, implantable defibrillators prevent sudden death significantly better than drugs...
...psychologically seduce'" women at the public radio station where he works. However, up to that point in the book, readers are lead to believe that John is kind, quiet, in love with his girlfriend Alida, and not coming close to stepping on anyone's toes along the way. This sudden, almost violent disclosure of persecution makes the reader stop and wonder what he or she has been missing--or what Keillor is intentionally excluding from his character sketches...