Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could have beat them, I know we could have beat them," Chen said. "We just had a couple of mental breakdowns at key times in the game...
...with a stage draped in tinfoil, a strobe light and an actor in a metallic suit. Briefly, what happens is this: as the poem is heard on the sound track--mixed and looped, sped up and slowed down, intermingled with classical music, rock, and a pounding techno beat--Erik Amblad performs a highly elaborate pantomime, in which his only prop is a large red chair...
...this spirit that the techno beat, weird light effects and eerie pantomime are intended; the best that can be said for it all is that it's trippy. The poem itself, by contrast, is very delicately nuanced, so much so that it can be read simultaneously as the nihilistic sequel to "The Waste Land" and as the first stirring of Eliot's Anglican religious poetry. Some of the images Eliot uses--such as the "multifoliate rose" and the quotations from liturgy--prefigure his highly devout late poems, the "Four Quartets." That's certainly not the idea that one gets from...
SUSAN COLLINS Republican--Maine In a rematch of their 1994 gubernatorial race, in which both lost to independent Angus King, Collins beat Democrat Joe Brennan for retiring William Cohen's seat...
...JOHNSON Democrat--South Dakota The popular five-term House member touted his moderate voting record to beat three-term incumbent Larry Pressler, who outspent him by almost $1 million...