Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biased source for this review: The Pixies were my musical gods for so many years. I built a shrine to them composed of a constant loop of all their albums. I wept, fasted, prayed--they were the new rock. They embodied this thing, this ideal, this "alternative." Then they broke up, shortly after tagging along with U2 on their consumerific Zoo TV tour (any augur could have seen where such a pairing would lead). So I heard no more from my little forest nymphs. Black Francis changed his name again and again and put out a mediocre album. Kim Deal...
...open as though they are cattle. In a similar part of the dream sequence, the still-living bodies of all of Biberkopf's acquaintances are piled in a bloody heap in a white-lit chamber. Biberkopf is led to join the orgy, reflecting the way in which he eventually broke his oath of decency and degenerated into a life of criminality...
After having a disastrous first day at the Dartmouth Invitational, for instance, Harvard stormed back in the next round with a solid score of 296. Not only did co-captain Alex Gonzalez shoot a team-best 73, but every Crimson golfer broke the 80-stroke barrier that day, bringing Harvard to only three strokes behind Ivy foe Dartmouth...
ESPN first broke the story of the coach's resignation on the evening of Oct. 8, but by then, Smith had already told his players--past, present and future. That night, hundreds of North Carolina students were camped outside the Dean Smith Center, chanting, "We love Dean! We love Dean!" As one would expect from a man who wears a tie even in practice, Smith showed up two minutes early for his 2 p.m. press conference. He tried to make it sound routine when he announced, "I have decided to resign as head basketball coach at the University of North...
Rampersad methodically retraces the amazing story of Robinson's transition from a local Southern California hero, albeit with paltry prospects after college, into the man who broke the unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs...