Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satiric inspiration. He shadowed the pop-music hits of the day with his own meticulously crafted parodies. Doing most of the voices himself, Freberg skewered the schmaltzy Johnnie Ray and the early Elvis, made fun of gabby folk singers (Rock Island Line) and Harry Belafonte's calypso shout (Banana Boat). Freberg's parodies were notable not just for their dead-on mimicry but also for the sophistication of their musical commentary. A jazz lover, Freberg fought a rearguard action against rock 'n' roll, which he considered undisciplined and musically simplistic. Only Freberg would have had the idea to satirize...
...term hopes, surely, are with a higher-rent crowd than that (think young, smart, successful and jaded, and you?ve got a constituency with a future). Buchanan?s would-be delegates, however, are already out in force, softening up the beach for when their man finally steps off the boat. Unless the Ventura/Trump/Weicker axis gets its act together soon, Buchanan will get exactly what he?s always wanted ? a party of his very own to push around...
...worked very intensely over the three weeks and had a lot more speed," co-captain Tom Fallows said. "We tried several different combinations of people in the boat and, more importantly, front-loaded our race to attack the other teams...
...dual meet season was highlighted by two wins over Brown and another over Tufts. The boat was unable to take races over Princeton and Virginia in the early part of the season...
...Division combination of seniors Peter Strothman and Becky Rosen tailed the Connecticut College boat around the course, finishing 10th but preventing the Crimson from jeopardizing its nationals qualification with a risky race...