Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Harvard's Bill Cleary, "It was unbelievable. They were blocking shots like mad out there." And Fusco added: "They did a good job. There was a clog out front and the shots form the point just weren't there...
...Cornell's just not that strong; they'll pick up their losses," predicts McLaughlin. "Penn and Princeton haven't even played each other or us yet, and they've got losses they weren't counting...
...record--the bound volumes that hold the papers from his tenure, a few letters he wrote describing his experience here, and his fond recollections of the organization that gave him his first position of power. Reconstructing the record is not easy, for in those days news stories and editorials weren't signed. Still, some legends have survived...
...after a four-year flirtation with celebrity, Crisp finds himself once again back on the posing platform for an art class. One student remarks, "You were a nine days' wonder, weren't you?" Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett...
MODELED CLOSELY on an English mini-series of the same title, Pennies from Heaven traces Arthur's adulterous romance with a baby-faced kindergarten teacher named Eileen Everson (Bernadette Peters), and follows the pair to their eventual downfall when Arthur becomes suspect in a murder. If it weren't for a surprisingly original gimmick, the movie might have just been another lowlife melodrama in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But as the two lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood...