Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massachusetts voters were treated to the equivalent of a barroom brawl as Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican challenger Mitt Romney duked it out over abortion, health care and crime in televised debates. In one particularly nasty exchange, during which Romney suggested that Kennedy had profited from a sweetheart real estate deal, Kennedy jabbed, "Mr. Romney, the Kennedys are not in public service to make money. We have paid too high a price...
GOOD: Tom Browning, back in command of his once-formidable pitching repertoire, two-hitting the Phillies in this year of offense, a year in which the juiced ball and expansion pitching are all the rage in barroom debates on the national game...
...failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black. Athletes may appear to lead charmed lives, at least in triumph. But an athlete is always a citizen of the larger world, vulnerable to all its whims...
That mix of confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting...
George Gershwin's early years were the heyday of ragtime and the blues, of barroom and bordello "perfessers" in spats and hats, of Tin Pan Alley song pluggers and sidewalk player pianos, whose invisible hands held passersby enthralled with their fascinatin' rhythms. So young George was only doing what came naturally when, at age 18, he sat down to cut a piano roll of his first published song, a frisky ditty called When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want...