Word: breather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's sorcery everywhere on the vast stage of EFX. Merlin does battle with Morgana--she with her six-ton mechanical dragon, he with an even more gigantic fire breather. From beyond the grave Harry Houdini romances his wife with a misty melody and a huge set that flies away in a spectral swooosh! H.G. Wells zips through the centuries in his Time Machine and escapes the clutches of the dreaded Morlocks in a getaway that puts the Miss Saigon helicopter to shame. And at the end another magician, the EFX! Master, sits atop a crystalline globe held...
...result is The Long Black Veil, which after only five weeks in release has become the band's first gold record (500,000 copies). Moloney, 56, may not have smelled gold, or cared if he did. "Who knows how these things will go?" he says, taking a rare breather in a 20-city U.S. tour that includes a St. Patrick's Day concert at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall. "But we had so much fun doing the set, I thought something good might come...
...Whitewater Breather...
Wall Street took a breather on Wednesday as stocks finished mixed following Tuesday's 55-point rally, with investors waiting for two key inflation reports due Thursday and Friday. Eleven hundred Big Board stocks fell on the day, while more than 900 advanced. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped1.68 points to 3875.15. The S&P 500 fell less than half a point to 465.47. NASDAQ stocks rose 1.43 to 767.00. Bond prices also dropped, as the yield on the Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue rose to 7.9%. The price of gold rose 25 cents to $387.90 in London trading...
...victors and losers jet home next week to their respective adulation and opprobrium, America will be left with baseball, football training camps, a little tennis, a smattering of golf -- and a void. For those who gave it a chance, the World Cup turned out to be a refreshing breather from the standard summer fare. Nothing against harness racing or the fellows who drive steroid-injected cars in circles, mind you. But out on the football pitch, as the newly initiated call the soccer field, there has been high drama: Italy's improbable comeback against underdog Nigeria left supporters of both...