Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieve racial integration. Baseball celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game than you imagined were possible. For baseball lovers it's the World Series, All-Star Game and Fan Appreciation Day rolled into one, with...
...moment of the Met triumph, Upshaw made it clear she intended to be a singer first, a diva second. She had performed in only a few operas and had barely established a recital career when she produced two astonishing albums. On one, released in 1989, she sang Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and compositions by Menotti, Stravinsky and John Harbison. The other, which came out two years later, is called The Girl with Orange Lips and is a collection of highly unusual contemporary pieces. Both won Grammys. Her next album, the Symphony No. 3 by Polish composer Henryk...
...emotions have been dried up to such a point that maybe we Sarajevans are really doing the world an injustice, a world that thinks victory over the forces of evil has finally come to pass, a world that believes there is true reason for rejoicing. At Muhammad the barber's, in "the street where the President no longer lives," as the barber likes to advertise, I encountered a strange atmosphere. Totally oblivious, like in the old days, people were talking about a soccer game broadcast from Germany, and then about whether or not some idiots from a pirate radio station...
Muhammad the barber went on and on about the best thing to do with the pile of wood he had gathered from digging up tree stumps all last summer: now there was gas, and it wasn't even that cold, so he had all this extra wood on the terrace. Should he sell it, or save it for next year? "Next winter everything will be back to normal, the occupiers are on the way out, it's all signed, and peace is coming," I said, half seriously and half in jest. Everyone stared at me, and a young soldier...
...they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...