Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good day, spiritually. American TV personality Oprah Winfrey gave the greeting "Hello, world," followed by four songs about love and stuff from Diana Ross, then a peacockish revue of the 24 countries competing in the 52 matches being held in America, then a splendidly brief welcome by Bill Clinton, who joined German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in conditioned, shady air to watch the match. The rest of us rose on sweaty feet to three national anthems. Then, action...
...American social history, the most important event of those steamy months a quarter-century ago may have been a largely unreported street clash, in the early-morning hours of June 28, between police and the homosexual clientele of an unlicensed New York City bar, the Stonewall Inn. The brief uprising inspired a gay civil rights movement that until then had few public adherents and scant hope of success. It launched a social revolution that is still changing the way Americans see many of their most basic institutions -- family, church, schools, the military, media and culture, among them. A group long...
Nanki-Poo but does not cut loose vocally as he did in Into the Woods, this is an amazing turnaround for Bell and Bowman, who mounted Broadway's truly brainless if brief musical flop, the gender-swapping castle fantasy A Change in the Heir, in 1990. Where that air was stale, this is irrepressibly fresh and fizzy...
...story goes that two chorus members of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera were returning to the green but sodden meadows of Sussex, England, after a brief break in London. One said, "I'm so sick of all this rain." Replied the other: "Yes, but it is privileged rain...
...court, Ben-Shachar and Dean battled fiercely, splitting the first four games and matching each other point-for-point in the tie-breaking fifth, 13-13, a situation giving cause for a five point tiebreaker. With the crowd behind him, Dean went up 4-2, and, for one brief moment, it looked like Harvard's string of three-straight national championships was over...