Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still playing it tough -perhaps to appease the Kremlin-the government responded with a volley of menacing statements. Pointing to the country's desperate economic plight, Kania angrily demanded: "Who has the boldness to turn a local incident into a national affair threatening catastrophe...
Harvard captain Don Pompan beat Drew Robinson 6-3, 6-4 in a fast-paced match. Both played an aggressive, serve-and-volley style, but Pompan's strokes, especially his first serve, were consistent...
...moderates fired first with a volley of blistering editorials in Banisadr's daily Enghelab-e-Eslami. Noting that the government had recovered only $2.8 billion of its $12 billion in frozen assets-and not a cent of the Shah's fortune-the paper blamed the original, clerically supported seizure of the hostages for most of the country's appalling problems...
...relationship between killer and killed. In a terrific battle scene, Kurosawa doesn't even show a gun going off--shots from the dark pick off one soldier after another, and the soundtrack is filled with clinking spears and screams. In the final battle we see volley after volley of an immense line of rifles, and we hear men shrieking, horses whinnying and bodies falling, but only after the last shot is fired does Kurosawa cut to the battlefield itself. Then he gives us, in slow motion with hollow trumpets ironically restating the victory theme, horses writhing, kicking...
...performance tonight was aided by a superb showing from the Crimson defense. The Terriers fired a volley of shots on the Harvard net, but most were harmless perimeter blasts, with no follow up or rebound. Lau's excellent stick-work (strong, wide clears) made sure of that, and then Mark Fusco, Scott Sangster, Neil Sheehy, Alan Litchfield, Ken Code and Bill Sztorc--all of whom played well--got the puck out. No crowd scenes in front of the net, no tip-ins, and a well-played...