Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't as dangerous in their 18 [goalie box] as they were in ours," Whitley said. "We were just one step off, just a little sluggish...
...That hurt," Kaiser said. "When we really had to turn it on in the third period, they slapped on a pressing defense, and that messed us up. By the time we got it back we weren't in the groove...
...office draw, Actress Glenn Close enacts the ultimate female revenge fantasy. While Close's character eventually reveals herself as a murderous psycho, she has a number of exchanges with her married lover early in the film that hit home with every woman ever scorned ( "I woke up. You weren't here. I hate that"). Says one Washington woman who saw the film with two girlfriends: "Afterward, we talked about all the boyfriends we ever had wanted to murder and schemed about how we should have done...
Keaton's performance and a handful of funny lines are not enough, however, to save Baby Boom from its insubstantiality. If it weren't for the bitter aftertaste of the movie's fatuous treatment of an important question or its vitriolic stereotyping, Baby Boom would be completely forgettable...
Once a school crosses the line, however, it is difficult to cross back. "The whole thing's a shame," Williams said. "I am reasonably convinced that most of the faculty that are so divided up there wish that it weren't so polarized. But once a faculty is polarized, it's hard to find a way back to community...