Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, Robie gained the edge at 14-12 in the fifth game. Fish fought back to 14-13 and the gallery emitted a collective sigh--he had already squandered a match point. But then Robie clinched the game, the match, the national crown championship, exacting a sweet measure of revenge. Hemenway, as always, still smelled of sweat, but on this afternoon champagne (squash players are ever eminent) flowed freely...
Ineffable pianissimos anticipate the loud reveilles and marches. Even Georg Solti with the Chicago Symphony (on London) cannot make the airs as sweet as Abbado does. If Solti got high with the Chicago before the 1970 release of his recording, Abbado, hardened by years of vicissitudes from fighting Mahler's Sixth, conducts the same troops ten years later with discipline and clear command...
DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Buckley, last seen in Cambridge leading an impotent Harvard offense against Yale, ended his collegiate career on a sweet Alabama note. He completed none of 16 passes and, on a patented roll-out to the left, hit USC's talented Kevin Williams on the bomb that proved the game's most spectacular play...
Smith, 25, was perhaps more of a gamble. The whole production rests on the ability of the hero to combine two opposites, a sweet but dumb charm and an almost arrogant self-confidence. Smith showed both in audition. "He came in and sang one note-B-flat-over and over," recalls Leach, "and right off he informed us that he could pull it off. He even pulled Errol Flynn's picture out of his wallet...