Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phasing," to use Reich's term) and then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical setting the violins simulate police sirens; "My Country, "Tis of Thee" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" are cast in ironic dissonance; the "donkey" momement from Saint-Saens's "Carnival of the Animals" is quoted...
...drug. "I'm not trying to say, 'I smoke weed, so everyone else should,' " explains Basehead leader Michael Ivey. "It's more a form of honesty. It's part of my life." Onstage, the Southern rockers the Black Crowes perform under a 48-ft. by 24-ft. banner emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. Says the group's lead singer, Chris Robinson, who posed for the cover of High Times magazine smoking a joint: "Pot is an essential part of life on the road...
...that was supposed to change when the Soviet Union imploded. Meetings between the presidents of the U.S. and Russia would become routine affairs, the participants no longer meeting as adversaries and their decisions no longer worth banner headlines. When Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin meet in Vancouver this weekend, the tensions between the two countries indeed will be gone. Instead of bickering over missile throw weights and Third World hot spots, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin will spend most of their seven hours together poring over loan schedules, monetary policy and investment strategies as they map out a program...
...world has an enormous stake in a game it can influence only marginally. Yeltsin may have exaggerated when he called his opponents cold warriors eager to reignite the global arms race and return to angry confrontations with the West. But an assertive Russia under a nationalist or neocommunist banner could be a disaster for its neighbors and the West. It would force reassessment of policies thoroughly changed by the end of the cold war. The prospect of facing an unfriendly Russia once more might force the Clinton Administration not just to cancel some planned Pentagon budget cuts but to begin...
Harvard continued to pound away in the second--on both the players and the net--but Princeton's confidence grew with every puck cleared out of the zone and every retaliatory check. Then, intense junior Troy Ewanchyna, the first player to race around the ice after the "Star-Spangled Banner" before the first period, did what he had dreamed of, sticking a breakaway shot by Harvard goalie Aaron Israel's glove-side hand and silencing the crowd...