Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what its psychological state was, the Crimson started the second half off with a bang. Only 59 seconds after halftime, Kohler drove right through a pack of Warriors up to the goal...
...unaccountably abbreviated on the new CD's label as "TGARTG"), Elvis Costello-ish self-mockery ("Bad Year at UCLA"), and honestly painful self-reproach ("The Red Baron"). Once you stop noticing how high his voice is, you'll probably start noticing its agility: "I want to go bang on every door/And say 'Wake up, you're sleeping through heaven'" has three contrasting riffs buried in it. Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being lush or orchestral, Game Theory's sound is always crisp (there's barely any reverb or delay on this entire...
Kirkland House resident Carlos A. Gonzales '94 was walking with a friend along Dunster Street when he heard "a loud bang," which he thought at first was a car crash. A few seconds later, there was the "sound of electricity" and a larger explosion displaced the cover with red and orange flames...
...audience knows the conventions of the genre: Henry will perpetrate a few grisly crimes; Mark will bang his head against the wall of parental disbelief; the stakes will keep rising until the final cliffhanging confrontation (again, literally). Far from defying Hollywood cliches, McEwan endorses them wholeheartedly. Flushed children skating merrily on the millpond when all of a sudden...; better yet: a clifftop tussle with the sea roaring on the ragged rocks below, and to top it all: Sophie's choice--a child dangling from either arm, and not enough strength to hold them both...
...years theorists have come up with many competing notions about the identity of dark matter. The candidates have included various kinds of subatomic particles, many of which aren't even known to exist; black holes; and even long, thin strings of pure energy left over from the Big Bang. Large planets or dim stars -- known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) -- are by far the most mundane of the solutions to the puzzle. They're also the least popular: theorists think there should be just enough dark matter to stop the universe's expansion without reversing it, and MACHOs...