Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nakielny's woes continued when, with a 12-11 lead on a fourth-quarter drive that could have killed what remained of the game clock, he mishandled a snap and linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski recovered at the Princeton 27-yard line to set up Giampaolo's winner...
...sober subjects, Brand New remains clear-eyed about both social injustice and sexual imprudence. "Imagine," an anti-racism track with a surprisingly earthy guest vocal from Sheryl Crow, stands too preciously beside its obvious ancestry in the namesake John Lennon tune to register very strongly. More effective is "The Clock Is Ticking," a rallying cry to abused women with an unaffected awareness of How Bad It Can Get: "You got kids, you got bills/You ain't got skills, you wanna take pills...
...helpmate Herby "Luvbug" Azor, often settling for a silky but mostly anonymous layering of vocals and synths. Salt, though, crafts a trio of bracing cuts to close the album. "Silly of You," a fairly tired "I-earn-the-dough" ego track, does boast an insinuating opium-den vibe; "The Clock Is Ticking" incorporates electric guitars and vocal distortions more freshly than any R&B since En Vogue's "Free Your Mind"; and "Hold On," the final track, makes the unlikely choice of Brandy's lightweight hit "Baby" as the sample-basis for one of Kirk Franklin's bebop spiritual revivals...
...have no idea what to expect, so in the name of journalism I head into the square with a couple of friends. Walking down Mass. Ave. at about 11 o'clock, right away one gets the sense that, at least for this weekend, college students don't own the town. Still, as I divide the better part of my evening between two bars popular with Harvard students, it becomes clear that undergraduates are making a strong showing: within minutes at each over-crowded location I manage to bump into freshman-year dorm mates, hometown acquaintances and a number of kids...
With two minutes left on the clock, Harvard's frustration showed when Bar Ziv became involved in a punching conflict with a Queens player and both were ejected from the game...