Word: winner
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Smith is 32, the second oldest of the still youthful Islanders, a last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories...
...joint computer research center that would have an annual budget of up to $100 million, 57 cities in 27 states put in bids to be the new enterprise's home. Bobby Inman, the former CIA deputy director and new head of the operation, last week revealed the winner: Austin. The state of Texas had offered, among other things, to provide Inman's company with low-cost laboratory space at the University of Texas...
...show is the creation of veteran Writer-Producer Jon Stone, 52, a Sesame Street pioneer and the winner of eight Emmy Awards for that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that...
...jury headed by Novelist William Styron, who got the job in the course of the French government's conference on Creation and Development held last February in Paris. The award reflected a retreat to the ordinary concerns of cinema. Last year's Palme d'Or winners, Missing from the U.S. and Yol from Turkey, played like news bulletins from Third World battlegrounds. This year's winner, Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades...
Skepticism about the efficacy of force colors our view not only of last year's wars but of today's, particularly those in Central America. When Senator Mark Hatfield said of El Salvador, "I think ultimately the winner is going to be the side that has the support of the people," he was confusing how elections are decided with how wars are decided. But he was also reflecting the widely held belief in history's obedience to the dictates of popular will. That belief and its corollary, the futility of force, are usually and facilely attributed...