Word: beate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sucky BATTLESTAR GALACTICA might beat new, awesome Battlestar Galactica to big screen...
...Line on the Horizon starts well. "I know a girl," Bono screams on the title track, thrusting us into the familiar cosmos of a U2 hit. There's the martial beat, the fickle female object of desire, the soaring inarticulateness - "Ohhhhhh/ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh" - followed by the Edge chugga-chugga-chugging away on his guitar, chasing Bono up the scale note for note and yawp for yawp. It makes you giggle in amazement that the same old tricks keep generating new thrills...
...credit, Bono never stops noodling with ways to make a connection. He slips into characters (a soldier in "White as Snow," a journalist in "Cedars of Lebanon"), scats like a young Beat poet and, in a moment he will probably regret, impersonates your office IT guy ("Restart and reboot yourself") on a ham-fisted attempt at life-coaching. Multiple times he asks, "Let me in the sound," as if looking for a place to hide...
...when the Crimson took advantage of the fortunate opening. With the league title on the line, Harvard clobbered St. Lawrence, 4-0, and Clarkson, 6-1, to jump from third to first in just over a week and prove that it’s the team to beat in the conference playoffs...
...before Mohamed's defense team used the British courts to try to secure classified U.S. intelligence material held by the British government, which the lawyers claimed would prove that evidence against their client had been obtained under torture. His legal team allege that Mohamed's captors in Morocco beat him, deprived him of sleep and slashed his genitals with a scalpel; in Kabul, his lawyers say that Mohamed was subjected to beatings and noise torture. "It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways...