Word: winner
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Larry Bird had the look and the deadly accuracy of a gunfighter yesterday, and it gave the Boston Celtics the look of a winner...
Only the far-right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the other "winner" of the election, with a surprising 14.5% of the vote in the first round, declared full and outright opposition. Le Pen, who on election night pugnaciously called the rest of the political right "suicidal" and the "dumbest in the world" for refusing a pact with him, thrust himself forward as leader of the "national, popular opposition" and the "only real alternative to Socialist power...
Navy attack Paul Basile scored the game-winner--which broke a 9-9 deadlock--with 4:21 remaining in the final period. Basile's goal followed a well-executed Navy rush up the entire length of the field and helped save the Midshipmen from drowning in the comeback waters of the Crimson's port of call...
...winner of the Harvard-Navy showdown will face Syracuse in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse...
...such stellar company, Co-Stars Joe Mantegna, a 1984 Tony Award winner for Glengarry, and Ron Silver, a movie and TV veteran (Silkwood, NBC's Billionaire Boys Club), might almost be an afterthought. In fact, the interaction between Mantegna as the mogul and Silver as a shameless huckster is the core of Mamet's pell-mell 88-minute play. Of all American playwrights, Mamet, 40, remains the shrewdest observer of the evil that men do unto each other in the name of buddyhood. Obsessed with the need for ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair...