Word: vic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped to make his latest vic tory a chain letter by breaking Ovett's 1,500-meter record as well. But a slow early pace kept him nearly 2 sec. slower than Ovett at the 1,500-meter mark (120 yds. short of a mile). Coe shifted into over drive. With a capacity crowd of 23,000 at Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium stamping in rhythm with his every step, he was able to make up lost seconds in the final 100 yds. to finish the mile in record time. He had worked during the winter on his already...
...Vic Ziegel, sportswriter, on how the baseball players' strike has altered his daily routine: "I walk the dog a lot. The only trouble with that is, whenever he scratches behind his left ear, I feel I ought to bunt...
Crimson middle Bobby Burr picked up a loose ball that the defense had knocked away and carried it over the midfield line. Burr then launched an arching lead pass to middle Vic Kazanjian, who made a reaching catch without breaking stride. Kazanjian raced toward the Wild at net, but dumped the ball off to a railing Forbush, and before UNH goalie E I Schwab could properly introduce himself, the ball was in the net behind...
...plots in sinuous camera movements and dynamite film tricks. What he cannot do is write or direct convincing dialogue. Sophisticated actors tend to sound silly when they deliver his messages: in Scanners, Hero Stephen Lack is too hammy, Evil Genius Patrick McGoohan too wry. But pleas for Old Vic or New Hollywood performances miss the point. If Lack, McGoohan and Heroine Jennifer O'Neill act like mannequins in a punk boutique window, fine. At any moment-at least in a David Cronenberg movie-the figures could escape to the street, walk up to you and bump! aarrgh! sploooosh...
...coaches gave the Lamar award for "dedication to the program and concern for his fellow player" to Vic Kazanjian, a senior defensive back--with a vociferous corps of admirers in the Stadium--who saw action mostly on special teams...