Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well God can turn the world around/ And he can push it in the dirt/ And he can tear it all apart/ He don't care who'all gets hurt/ Oh, something ain't right." The mix is intoxicating -- a dark elixir candy-coated with buoyant melodies and lyrics that smile even as they bite. At once scathing and funny, swinging and strange...
...beginning," he quipped in an interview, "I was sort of irritated that no one bothered to look" for dirt. Of course he dealt with government agencies, Tsongas said, reciting a list of transactions known to anyone familiar with his legal career. Large liabilities still afflict his candidacy, but an ethics deficiency isn't one. Neither is meanness. Tsongas last Thursday followed Clinton and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey before the same audience in Nashua. Reporters badgered all three about Clinton's latest problem -- the charge that he ducked military service during the Vietnam War. Kerrey exploited the opportunity to compound Clinton...
...Philadelphia ghettoes. The only other semi-acknowledged (by these Eastern hoops gurus) source of basketball talent is the fields of Indiana, the land of the Hoosier myth. But only rarely does a great one emerge from the wheat fields and the single hoop planted in the grass by a dirt road...
...after all the symposia sponsored by prestigious academic institutions, we still have difficulty coping with what's right and what's wrong." Network news president Roone Arledge heard their decision to hold off. Yet hours later, the network devoted that night's episode of Nightline to dishing the unchecked dirt from the Star, in the guise of debating the propriety of doing so. The rationale, as explained by anchor Ted Koppel: Clinton himself planned to confront the issue publicly, agreeing to do Nightline that evening before a travel snafu forced him to cancel his trip to Washington...
There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...