Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complete contrast is Omar's father, sunk very low in his adopted nation, who is presented in the film's opening moments lying on his bed and drinking vodka. As Laundrette unfolds, however, his esteemed past, dignity and ideals come forward; he urges his son to "go to university, become a politician." He also retains a good deal of self-mockery and dry wit. On meeting Johnny at the laundrette's opening, he gently asks "Do you do a pink rinse or are you still a fascist...
Yale worked the lead up to 10 points at three following junctures, before the spunky cagers clawed back to within five, 66-61, as forward Kyle Dodson sunk a pair of free throws with 2:51 left on the clock...
...teacher and her children -- her own and her students. One wanted to snatch them away from the sight and rescind the thing they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...
Just 23 seconds into the period, Big Red forward Drew Martin drove to the hoop and was fouled by Crimson center Bill Mohler as he sunk his shot. The 6-ft., 4-in. Martin hit from the charity stripe to cap the three-point play--an accurate omen of the 20 minutes in store for the hosts...
Freshman Jim Barton, the Green's leading scorer with 20 points on the night, sunk a shot from 16 feet to narrow Harvard's lead to one, 55-54, but the visitors never broke through the elusive 55-point barrier...