Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prayer," he once croaked, after a tenor had sung it. During a lavish encomium to the Supremes he forgot the trio's name and concluded lamely: "Here are the girls." Looking somewhat like a Great Stone Face transplanted from Easter Island to Broadway, he would rock back and forth onstage, hands across chest or clutching his kidneys, while in baleful voice he introduced a succession of comedians, jugglers, rock bands and animal acts...
...friends, the Jenkins family spoke to no outsiders during the week following Thom's death. When they finally did, it was to reminisce for several hours as the warm winter sun sank behind the mountains. They shed no tears, but rather smiled and even laughed as the memories poured forth. Though pain seemed to burn in their eyes, the healing had begun...
...Quakers have historically put forth a testimony against the use of coercive force," says Harrison, 41 a full-time spiritual worker who lives in Medford. "Such action breeds bitterness and hatred, which is not the way to deal with others to promote peace...
...Mozart bicentennial ranges far beyond Manhattan. On the same day that the "Haffner" was resounding in Lincoln Center, Mozart's "Prague" Symphony poured forth in Prague, and nine other European cities chimed in with concerts of their own. Then all 10 performances were broadcast in sequence over a continentwide network, so that Europeans with grandiose Mozart plans of their own could start their celebrations...
...unlike Teutonic Knights or samurai, mutter their critics, are these modern specimens of great powers. When the call to battle Saddam Hussein bugled forth, Germany and Japan begged off as conscientious objectors. Though they have flourished and grown rich behind U.S. defense cordons, both countries quailed at the call to arms. War with Iraq? The wolf that ate Kuwait was not at their door. Deterring aggression? Bonn's attitude amounted to "Let George do it." Standing fast by a security partner? Washington found it apt that Tokyo is ringing in the Year of the Sheep...