Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commissioner's often turbulent tenure has included a bout with the city manager and City Council over new recruits with arrest records, a restructuring of the department to put more officers on the street and a return to old-fashioned community policing with the creation of a Citizen Advisory Board...
...show takes a long time getting started, ends rather abruptly, and is needlessly vulgar along the way, including a prolonged bout of simulated sexual intercourse at center stage. Some of the stage effects bring unintended laughter from the audience, as does much of the pseudospiritual dialogue for Keith David, in an impossible role mingling elements of Death, Satan and St. Peter. And Morton himself remains a sketchy figure whose few bits of trademark bad behavior are repeated over and over...
...Lozano's story is no typical tale of a student's bout with a Harvard inferiority complex. This past week, it exploded into a media spectacle that has attracted national attention...
Tsongas, who left the Senate due to a bout withcancer and has since rebounded to good health,said his only other option, given his financialsituation, was to be the "spoiler" in the race forthe nomination...
...post-bout analysis: "[McIntyre] relied on stock pop phraseology. It was mostly theatrical. The audience I guess was taken in by that...