Word: doves
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...Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith -- were rousing successes. Yusef Komunyakaa became the third black, after...
Nonetheless, Krein dove one way and Paine carefully hesitated before lifting her shot from 10 yards out over the fallen goalie and into the lower left corner of the net to give UConn its 1-0 lead...
Freshman Keren Gudeman sent a perfect lead pass to Stauffer, setting up a one-on-one with Cornell goalie Sue DeLong. DeLong dove one way, Stauffer drove the ball the other way, finding the lower left portion of the mesh to give the Crimson a huge 2-0 advantage...
...orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars of Brahms to silence the audience...
Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...