Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bit of final club punch-season humor, I wanted to know, a coy attempt to poke fun at the Diversity and Distinction view of the world? Or is it part of a serious effort to get Harvard women down on the mats with each other...
...surprised by [Harvard] and we were hoping that they would lay back a bit, but they didn't and they came at us hard," Poti said. "It was a lot better than last year's win and Harvard was just an awesome team and you have to give them a lot of credit...
...said that mortal enemies, in time, come to resemble each other. Perhaps that explains how Hillary Clinton, a staff lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, is sounding a tiny bit like Tricky Dick himself. As she sought to defend her beleaguered husband last week, Mrs. Clinton charged that accusations against him, of adultery and perjury, are the invention of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to undo the results of the past two elections. What's more, the alleged conspirators--a multitalented cabal including not only Kenneth Starr and Paula Jones but also Senators, judges, publishers, Internet gossips...
...weakest tracks on the album is one of the most daring--the spooky-sounding Deep Dish. It's a song that eventually grows on you a bit, but at first listen it sounds harsh and weird, with bleating horns and obscure spoken breaks that feature lines like "this is only a possibility in a world of possibilities/ there are, obviously, there are many possibilities." It's all very courageous but also very clunky...
...Capeman, PAUL SIMON's new musical about a New York City gang killing in the 1950s, had a long, troubled road to Broadway, and its troubles didn't end on opening night. Some last-minute doctoring helped a bit (especially in the doo-wop-flavored first act), but the show never comes to life onstage, and it was drubbed by critics. Yet its backers are vowing to keep the show running at least until the Tony nominations in May. "We're obviously disappointed," said DAN KLORES, one of the producers. "But we're going to fight." A determined group...