Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made the mistake of beating the home team. Uzbek fans went on a rampage and defenestrated several Russian students at the local university. It was weeks before even rumors of the incident reached Moscow. Now, when Bishop Berkeley's tree falls in the Russian forest, there is a camera crew from State Radio and Television to chronicle the event, along with several foreign correspondents, a visiting political scientist or two and an attache from the U.S. embassy...
...indecisiveness, Florida's Republican Governor Bob Martinez will have trouble winning a second term. He is trying to boost his chances by leaping on an unlikely issue. He has asked the state prosecutor to bring obscenity and racketeering charges against a popular rap-music band, the 2 Live Crew, for recording an album whose title, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, aptly describes its contents...
Last month a judge in Fort Myers found probable cause that the songs were obscene. The ruling gave Martinez grounds for ordering a criminal investigation of whether the album was being illegally sold to minors. Says 2 Live Crew's lead singer, Luke Skywalker, "I figure it all to be real political...
Defense: Hartje. He may have the least experience behind the blueline--he's only played there since February--but Hartje still anchored Harvard's shorthanded defense corps this weekend. With Brain McCormack out with a shoulder injury, the five-man crew had extra work to do on defense--but that didn't stop Hartje from being aggressive on the offensive end as well...
...show's popularity has, predictably, inspired a few furrowed brows as well as belly laughs. Some are concerned that the on-camera spills are dangerous and might encourage reckless behavior; Di Bona and crew have rejected some clips for that reason (like one showing a toddler apparently driving a car, while a parent actually steers off-camera). Others are concerned that people may begin to stage scenes specially for the program. That would spoil the caught-in-the-act charm but would hardly be unexpected. Once you give America a chance to produce a show...