Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five seconds left in the game, and Princeton, ahead by a point, has the ball, The Ivy title's on the line, and Harvard is playing superhuman defense. Tiger point guard Gary Knapp looks around in wild desperation--there's no-one open, no-one at all. Finally it comes, the referee's whistle. And everyone's on their feet, screaming, as the ref tosses up the jump ball that could decide the game...
...lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff but lovable paternal figure, Kiel (remember Jaws in the James Bond movies?) as the superhuman giant who picks up and throws lots of very heavy objects. Kiel shines only briefly when, in a moment of vanity, he prances like a stud to the tune of Frankie Valli's "Walk Like...
...duplicity, equivocation and intrigue. Yet the society's demanding training, rigorous discipline and pioneering work in education also earned its members a reputation as "the schoolmasters of Europe." They trained, among others, Molière, Voltaire, Descartes and James Joyce. Even their most ardent critics grudgingly respected the superhuman feats of Jesuit missionary fathers who risked their lives to carry the Word to palaces and peasants on five continents...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's defense played it's finest game of the season, largely because of a superhuman effort from Mark Fusco. The sophomore played perhaps the best all-around game of his career...Brown's Darrell Petit, whose two-minute penalty at 6:35 of the first period is memorable because it contained three possible infractions, may be the dirtiest player in the ECAC. Incomprehensibly, Petit even complained to official Bill Quinn about the call...Crimson defenseman Alan Litchfield has become the team's hardest and most consistent checker. Litchfield played a solid game in every respect and is challenging...
...gates, the walls, the plaza, the pyramids are all superhuman in scale, built with intent to awe. But not everyone appreciates the sheer physical feat of building the thing--some people remember instead the blocks of inner-city residences that were torn down to make space for it, the families displaced by the construction. And some are embarrassed by its size. There is a joke among Taiwanese students that when a young man from the southern city of Kaohsiung came to Taipei for the first time, he walked all the way around the memorial wall to see the designs...