Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next event to set off cheers and a standing ovation from the Harvard crowds came in the 3000-meter, after Army had swept all the shorter distances. Harvard's Kate Wiley tired her opponents with 15 speedy laps, finishing...
Fuchs and Robin Dorfman swept all four of their bouts against Brown...
...fact, Harvard dominated last year's contests. The Crimson swept all five tackle football games, and won the championship in each sport, taking 18 of 29 games overall. The closest competition came in men's soccer, where three matches ended in ties and two went into overtime...
...event eerily fused, for a moment, the normally dissociated dimensions of public life and private life. And so Americans felt Kennedy's death in a deeply personal way: they, and he, were swept into a third dimension, the mythic. The ancient Greeks thought that gods and goddesses came down and walked among them and befriended them or betrayed them. The drama 20 years ago-bright young life and light and grace and death all compounded by the bardic camera-turned Kennedy into a kind of American...
...Roof will never be an enjoyable play to watch because it assaults too many brutal problems haunting people. But if the audience realizes this and allows itself to be swept into the setting, the characters, and their relationships, then the play will have a devastating effect, forcing us to confront our own problems, and our difficulties in expressing our thoughts. This particular production, superbly interpreted by the cast, plays off of the audience's attention, and as we get consumed in their actions, they in turn become more and more tense and brutal, relaxing their grip only when the lights...