Word: die
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor thick of night could keep Schubert groupies from attending Sunday's performance of Die Schone Mullerin at the Museum of Fine Arts, despite the soggy deluge of the afternoon's Nor'easter. After wading through the flooded Fenway in standard duck boots/GoreTex combo's, soaked devotees crowded into the MFA's Remis Auditorium to hear Christopheren Nomura perform some of the German composer's most effusive and affecting ballads...
...Coop must die the death of an anachronism and pass from our midst. Its recent acquiescence to turn over the management of its operations to Barnes & Noble provides a case in point. Within one year of privatizing operations, the Coop's costs of advertising, data processing and employee salaries and benefits have declined. Isn't it surprising that a firm interested in making a profit will prevent excess spending! Obviously, the Coop hasn't learned that lesson. And to judge from the its less-than-helpful permanent sales clerks, management isn't taking any pains to enforce capitalist dictates...
...they now interact in strange and unpredicted ways, and the occasional burst of moral progress breaks through. People like Jesus and Buddha come along and say radical things that somehow stick in the world's consciousness. And the most animal of institutions--such as slavery--do seem slowly to die out. Who knows where this could lead? Personally, I'd rather see Eden on the horizon--however dimly and elusively--than in the rearview mirror...
...help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits too much of himself. And despite his efforts, gunfire sweeps through the streets. People die...
...nurse at a San Diego hospital the night a technician allowed a patient who had just suffered a heart attack to get out of bed and smoke a cigarette. "All of a sudden the patient's heart monitor showed ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening condition in which you can die within minutes," says Kranstover. "I rushed in to resuscitate him. He almost didn't make...