Word: hail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. The black experience in America as interpreted by the tapping, stomping feet of Savion Glover and company. The sketches--on how hard it is to hail a cab in Manhattan, or be a black dancing star in 1930s Hollywood--are satirically on target, and the dancers perform with demon drive. What a year for musicals...
...superficial friendships, not so hot at more intimate ones. The game plan of writer-director Cameron Crowe's intricate, insinuating comedy is to get his protagonist into the end zone of emotional maturity with no more than minor injuries. For a guy like Jerry, this is pretty much a Hail Mary play. For an actor like Cruise, it is a great broken-field...
...face it--not too many polo greats hail from St. Louis, Missouri. Maybe that's what makes Zimmerman so good--he knows he has something to prove in a sport that is traditionally dominated by Californians...
Citing pragmatic reasons for joining forces, most of the paired candidacies hail from different extracurricular backgrounds and social groups...
...years of modestly sufficient rain and no crop-battering hail, prosperity seemed possible. But the winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...