Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a guru in Puttaparthi, India, a remote city that is probably one of the few places on the globe where there isn't a Hard Rock Cafe. Music had become too corporate for Tigrett's liking; rock songs were turning up in cola commercials, beer companies were sponsoring concert tours. Tigrett wanted to get away from it all, find an ashram and meditate--and since he had profited mightily from rock commercialization himself, he had enough disposable income to finance his escape. But after a few years of respite, Tigrett's guru gave him a mission. "My master said...
Just look at him now. He is a campaigning dreadnought, wading into crowds from the black-earth zone of European Russia to Siberian forests, microphone in hand, bantering, pledging, urging. Wooing the youth vote in Ufa two weeks ago, his cheeks glowing, Yeltsin danced at a free rock concert, bellowing to thousands of Generation Xers, "Vote! Vote, or you'll damn well lose it all." At a state farm near Tver last week he promised workers, as he has everywhere, that he would pay their back salaries. "I'll give you the money, now that you have cornered...
...unpopular war in Chechnya, vast public dissatisfaction with the state of reforms and increasingly tough economic times. But in the past few months, Yeltsin transformed himself from an ailing recluse to a populist dynamo. He bulldogged his way through campaign stops and photo ops, dancing at a pop concert with fierce, arm-pumping concentration in one memorable moment. "With new advisors like former privatization minister Anatoly Chubais, and NTV head Igor Malashenko finally telling him some unvarnished truths, Yeltsin began to react to conditions in the country," says Donnelly. "It does not take a genius to realize Russians are disgusted...
When Diana Krall strode from the wings at a recent tribute concert to saxophone great Benny Carter, the Carnegie Hall audience might have briefly wondered whether Sharon Stone had wandered onstage. Smashingly glamorous, with lavish golden hair and a smoldering glare, Krall could easily have been mistaken for a big-screen starlet. But appearances aside, the moment she launched into the opening notes of Carter's classic heartbreaker, Fresh Out of Love, it was clear that this compelling new singer has more in common with Ella Fitzgerald than with any Hollywood actress...
...Simons '99 received a forceful backlash when he misused Harvard's e-mail resources to mass-mail an advertisement for an a cappella concert.... While Simons' mailing may have been an innocent mistake, it serves as a reminder of how fragile the Internet is.... If individuals cannot regulate their own actions, then a higher power will inevitably step in, and in doing so will decrease the value of the 'Net to all users...