Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gonna Cry" from Waiting to Exhale) or, most common of all, composed by Bryan Adams (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves's "Everything I Do [I Do it For You]," Don Juan DeMarco's "[Have You Ever] Really Loved a Woman?"), these Love Songs dominate radio play-lists and often surpass their related movies in popularity. Indeed, how many of last year's senior proms were perfumed by the sweet mourning of the Goo Dolls' "Iris." featured in City of Angels? "And all I can taste is this moment/And all I can breathe is your life"--lyrics such as these, occasionally...
...west, festivals and street parties will run well past dawn, with cruisers and river buses shuttling revelers between events. At the newly completed Millennium Dome, claimed to be the world's largest domed building (though it resembles a flying saucer with spikes), the evening extravaganza promises to surpass even the elaborate opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Tickets will be hard to come by, but 10,000 have been set aside for VIPs and distribution to the public...
...only author who tried to surpass the encyclopedic scope of Ulysses was Joyce himself. He spent 17 years working on Finnegans Wake, a book intended to portray Dublin's sleeping life as thoroughly as Ulysses had explored the wide-awake city. This task, Joyce decided, required the invention of a new language that would mime the experience of dreaming. As excerpts from the new work, crammed with multilingual puns and Jabberwocky-like sentences, began appearing in print, even Joyce's champions expressed doubts. To Pound's complaint about obscurity, Joyce replied, "The action of my new work takes place...
Meanwhile, during the eight Ivy losses over the next 10 games, Harvard never held the opposition under 70 points, while in the season's 13 wins, only twice did the opponent surpass the 70-point mark...
Jackson, who was 5-for-5 from the field and 4-for-4 from the foul line in the final quarter, scored 14 of Indiana's final 17 points to easily surpass his previous season-high...