Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom line is that recording labels, managers, producers and radio stations are fearful of losing their traditional hold over the musicians themselves. It used to be that in order to sell their music, bands had to sign with a recording label with the right contacts to get their songs out to DJs and industry heads for local and national promotion. Labels who caught up-and-comers could sign them to contracts which bound them to turn over a huge percentage of their profits and subsequently regulate all aspects of album production, touring...
Lennon (1-1) gave the lead back in the bottom of the fourth, surrendering an RBI single to catcher Jason O'Reilly then a second home run to Aswad in the fifth, getting stuck with his first loss of the season...
...bottom of Harvard's lineup struggled as Pepperdine took the fourth-, fifth-and sixth-place matches. However, the top of the order picked up the slack. At No. 1, Blake shook off any of the cobwebs that had formed during a week of limited practice and pasted No. 37 Gullet...
...KEVIN KLINE in your film, you don't want to lose him behind a mask," says director Michael Hoffman. He is referring to his decision to have Kline (seen here with MICHELLE PFEIFFER) withstand 3 1/2 hours of makeup rather than don a donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire for love and the desire...
Others nearly beat him to it. As early as 1872, German chemist Adolf von Baeyer was investigating the recalcitrant residue that gathered in the bottom of glassware that had been host to reactions between phenol (a turpentine-like solvent distilled from coal tar, which the gas-lighting industry produced in bulk) and formaldehyde (an embalming fluid distilled from wood alcohol). Von Baeyer set his sights on new synthetic dyes, however, not insulators. To him, the ugly, insoluble gunk in his glassware was a sign of a dead...