Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UCLA, the rules were changed expressly to thwart him. Dunking, jamming the ball into the basket from above, was temporarily outlawed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Still, with a sullen grace and dispassionate touch, he showed UCLA to 88 wins in 90 games and three national titles. He was the NBA's first draft choice...
When left-leaning law professors learned Thursday that Bok had chosen Clark--known for his vocal attacks on radical scholarship--they were unusually critical in their comments. One professor called the appointment a "disaster," and another said Bok was "out of touch" with the faculty...
...never told Wendy where the book came from, and as the year wore on I lost touch with her. Fourth-graders are pretty fickle, and by the end of elementary school, so I heard, she had run off with some guy on a motorcycle...
Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...
...touch was there tonight when it counted. After building a 77-72 lead with 2:17 to play, the Crimson watches as Yale guard Dean Campbell torched them for six of his 21 points, including a breakaway lay-up after he stripped the ball from Harvard's Ralph James...