Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which its initial clunkiness (cheesy digitized organ sounds, Casioesque drum-machine beats, etc.) gradually gets transformed into something close to actual triumph. And a few other numbers--notably "Music Without Keys NO. 1 and 3"--ofter the same kind of instrumental, non-rock, tourde-force delights. More important, they cement your, or at least my, sense of Teen Beat 96 Exploder as one enormous work of art rather than ass a collection of 8 to 20 disparate ones: singling out all the great songs here won't tell you all you need to know about why this Eggs record continues...
Aziz shared a four-room cement blockhouse with 16 relatives. The room he lived in with his wife and two young children is decorated with the wooden model of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, which he completed in prison. Intissar, Aziz's 22-year-old widow, said, "The day of Anwar's martyrdom was the happiest day of our marriage...
When the musical The Red Shoes nudged aside its director, lyricist and librettist and dumped star Roger Rees, Broadway wags dubbed it The Lead Shoes, Dead Shoes or Pink Slips. Opening is postponed to Dec. 16. What next -- The Cement Boots...
...Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...
...guiding skeptical visitors around the mine site, explaining the care with which crews have been contouring and reseeding -- "mitigating" is the word -- old mine wreckage. Orange-stained, acidic water, the beginning of Fisher Creek, flows out of an old adit (mine entrance), but Kirk says large-scale plugging with cement and waste rock will prevent such seepage from dribbling out of Henderson's far side and downstream to Yellowstone. Will this work in a watery, fractured mountain? "There are risks in all human activity," says Kirk...