Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature jazz depends upon a collective effort. Williams took as risk putting this many headliners on the same bandstand. Any of them, especially Watson, could have stolen the spotlight. But no one did. It is a tribute to Williams' command as a subtle leader among team players that this chemistry worked. The musicians knew it. The audience knew it. And Williams knew it, even if he was too modest to admit...
...heard it's possible to monitor conversations with other people through the talk command, though...
...which has sought to project a more moderate image, is actually reaffirming its ties with terrorist organizations worldwide. Western intelligence sources say Iran has been strengthening its relations with such groups as the Japanese Red Army, the Lebanese Hizballah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Sources also say representatives of several international terrorist groups met a few weeks ago in Tehran with high-ranking Iranian intelligence officials. High on the agenda: disruption of the Middle East peace process...
Many of these low-rent tenants--including Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, WGBH-TV General Manager David Ives and Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ruth Abrahams--could easily afford market rents. Their apartments, in turn, would command such rents on a free market...
...Floor with My Forehead is part sketch, evoking several varieties of his trademark sociopath, and part musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...