Word: trifectas
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...first video game I ever purchased, and no doubt the initiation of many gamers of our Halo-fed generation, was that awe-inspiring trifecta of pixilated pleasures: the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet combo pack. While some wondered how so much power could fit into a single plastic cartridge and others mulled over what drug-fortified madness put two Italian plumbers in a world of angry, portly mushrooms, the rest of us stopped thinking altogether and rocked the Power Pad. That Power Pad, an ungainly gray spread dotted with red and blue circles (with white shine...
Maasdorp’s trifecta was comprised solely of penalty corners, in which the Crimson possessed a distinct advantage for the game. Harvard drew 11 penalty corners in the contest to the Bulldogs’ four...
...successfully introduced the morning show ?Today? in 1952 and was about to launch ?The Tonight Show? in late-night. ?Home,? which premiered in January 1954, completed the trifecta, as another of Phyllis? daytime programs aimed at flattering the intelligence and expanding the interests of its (mostly female) audience. Francis, with her breezy assurance and fabulous social-baritone voice, co-hosted the show with Hugh Downs. They interviewed guests ranging from Jerry Lewis to Helen Keller to Judge Joseph N. Welch, the Army?s attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings that ended Joe McCarthy?s four-year run as the Capital...
...career, Brown won his first pro title last week, making him, at 63, not only the oldest coach to win an NBA championship but also the first to win a title in college and the pros. (As the coach of the U.S. Olympic team, he goes for the trifecta in Athens this summer.) But it took a union with Dumars to give the itinerant coach his crown. And the ex-Piston bad boy, who helped Detroit win back-to-back championships as a player in 1989 and '90, made history of his own, becoming the first African-American...
Besides, The Pianist’s Academy trifecta was the biggest dark-horse Oscar upset in our lifetimes; what was the last year that a film won in at least three of the top eight categories when it wasn’t the odds-on favorite in any of them? The only year in the last twenty that I could make a case for was 1992, when The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars in a year when most were predicting victories for Bugsy, JFK, or The Prince of Tides. We shouldn’t expect numerous Oscar shockers...