Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Uncle Scrooge never had the high-style sizzle of Superman or Prince Valiant, or the cockeyed melodrama of Dick Tracy, but the mock-heroic sweep of Barks' stories and the whimsical clarity of his drawing made a heavy mark on a generation of children for whom comic books offered a powerful mythology. That mark shows up in some unlikely places. Barks' stories, as Film Director George Lucas points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas...
...eked out a come-from-behind 3-2 win in the first game first baseman Eddie Farrell belted a hanging curve almost 400 feet lot a game winning three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning of the final game, capping a doubleheader sweep of Dartmouth at Soliers-Field...
...them. Dugger interviewed the President at length in 1967 and 1968 but broke off their sessions when L.B.J. began pressing for a puff piece. No one can accuse the author of delivering one. His book is very light on endearing anecdotes, and it is unlikely to match in sweep and detail the first volume, to be published next fall, of a mammoth Johnson trilogy by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro. But Dugger is a digger-wide-ranging, thorough, judicious. He deserves an award for footnotes alone (69 pages of them, in tiny, tiny type). He has the goods...
Harvard's eighth straight triumph puts its season mark at a perfect 8-0 in the EITA, 15-7 overall. The only EITA teams which have actually challenged the Crimson are Yale and Princeton In both of those matches. Harvard fell behind during singles competition, but rebounded to sweep all three doubles matches for the victories...
...withdrawn from politics entirely. She predicts that Democrats and liberals in general will counter the conservative change that swept Ronald Reagan into office in 1980, and intends to help in the reconstruction effort she believes will follow. "Usually after something like this the same kind of sweep comes in again; it won't take a long time, but it'll be expensive, she says. Noting that the Right's recent success will probably result in some long term damage to several programs and regulatory agencies, she adds. "What you're really doing is going back and restructuring all of those...