Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, a beautiful album of light folk-pop--which could be a euphemism for "slow death." Davis divined a vast pool of potential buyers awakened by the Lilith Fair Tour, so Arista flogged the album at MTV and radio for months until the dam finally broke. At 7 million sold, Surfacing has become a Jewel-and Alanis-style blockbuster. No wonder the stymied Artist most of us still know as Prince beat a path to his door. His new Arista album debuts next month...
...been Trying Times at Center High ever since the news broke last month that Rivers, 44, a popular and award-winning teacher, had been relieved of her duties by the local school board. Some 200 teachers and students staged a protest, chanting, "Two, four, six, eight--we demand a reinstate." Television trucks bristling with satellite dishes surrounded the tidy campus. And last week dissident parents served three school-board trustees with election-recall petitions. "I'm overwhelmed," says Rivers. "I expected an uneventful transition...
...under its rules must sign a "confession" of any deviations. (Korine: "I confess that in the turkey-dinner scene, I made my grandmother go to the grocery store and buy a batch of raw cranberries ...") But Dogme is as much a game as it is a cult. Indeed, Korine broke nearly every commandment; like Rasputin, he wants to sin so he can repent. At the beginning he stages a violent death (Rule 6). At the end he credits himself (Rule 10). In between he uses slow motion, stop motion, superimposition, all kinds of optical tricks (Rule 5). And the vaunted...
...Quayle withdrew his hat from the ring, and he is most upset that the little propeller on top of it broke. --David Brenner...
...this, after a stellar 2-1 overtime win against Ivy rival Penn, only proves that the best is yet to come. Senior co-captains Beth Zotter and Jessica Larson are the core of the team, notching solid performances every game. Zotter broke her dry spell against Penn in perhaps the most opportune time of the game, while Larson, the MVP in the Harvard Invitational, continues to dazzle by leaving her opponents in the dust...