Word: broom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choreography in a similar way--one could call it departicularizing. These old tales, which are not meant to be realistic anyway, need their familiar, traditional components. The Cinderella production is ruined by streamlining. Near the beginning, there is customarily a charming dance for the heroine partnered by her faithful broom. When the Fairy Godmother appears in a vision, she is usually accompanied by the Four Seasons, who have pretty, technically challenging variations. Here all this is replaced by pointless, dull sequences for the corps de ballet, who cross and recross the stage, smiling vacuously. Actually, Cinderella cannot very well dance...
...guess a hockey team just can't be trusted these days. You leave the Harvard men's hockey team with a three-game winning streak, in prime position for a late Beanpot/ECAC/NCAA (take your pick) title run, and a mere three weeks later you're holding a broom out over a vat of quicksand, hoping Harvard can grab hold and drag itself to safety before it's too late...
With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...Sharon Broom, a spokesperson for ASHA, said last week that hotline callers can request they be mailed a free packet of information on herpes...
...park that newcomers enter at their own risk. Old immunities disappear as members are forced to take positions and cast votes, providing the very specifics to voters and potential opponents they so carefully avoided this campaign. Unless overnight sensations like Stockman and Frist perform sensationally, they may find the broom that swept the old coots out of office ready to be used again...