Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia finally did score with eight minutes remaining in the contest. Sophomore fullback Chris Konovalchik broke up the middle, cut right, and dove into the endzone causing the good-sized Columbia contingent to go wild...
...authorities have discovered that the same terrorist gangs that turned Belfast into a sectarian battleground have siphoned off millions of dollars from the reconstruction to finance their continuing war. As money for new construction pours into Belfast, paramilitary forces on both sides demand a cut of the profits. This Ulster Mafia exacts its levies from local businesses, and if people do not pay up, a bomb or a shot in the night may follow...
...another. A willow tree in Two Faces turns up, in a more ominous context, in Brilliant Disguise. What Springsteen twice refers to as "God's light" shines, with different luster, in Cautious Man and Valentine's Day. The singer-narrator of Walk Like a Man (the album's standout cut) could easily be looking at himself, a few years later, in One Step Up and noticing "I don't see/ The man I wanted to be." There is, in fact, much lyrical speculation on manhood in this record, as if Springsteen, disgusted with the rock-Rambo hype that surrounded...
...settings are recognizable too (weddings, dances, late-night bars and lonely roads), but Springsteen tilts them so that familiar territory can suddenly seem like a forbidding landscape. Love hurts, love haunts, love heals in these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take...
...episode in a long-running battle between the fundamentalists and the government, which this year launched a major crackdown against the militants. Since last spring, authorities have arrested more than 2,000 fundamentalists, who are suspected of being part of a plot by Iran to spread its revolution. Bourguiba cut off relations with Tehran last March after six Tunisians were arrested in Paris and charged with being part of an Iranian-run terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iran terror group that is based in Beirut, claimed responsibility for the August hotel bombings in Tunisia. After last week's verdicts...