Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summer 1997 seems like a good moment for Blues Traveler. Grunge is gone, alternative is stale, and so the band's harmonica-happy pop-blues may be just what audiences want. The group's last studio album, Four, featured two terrific hits, Run-around and Hook, and sold 6 million copies. With its follow-up CD, Blues Traveler had the chance to extend its success and prove that it really deserves to be touted as the next Grateful Dead...
...heart, which Henry Bonilla of Texas described as "filled with emotion, filled with passion," ended without calls for the heads of Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and John Boehner, figures implicated in the plot along with Bill Paxon, who stepped-down last week. The lieutenants were let off the hook despite a particularly damaging account by DeLay, who admitted he informed GOP rebels he would vote with them if they moved to unseat Gingrich. Despite the admission, participants said DeLay attempted to soften his confession by saying he made his decision in a cloud of exhaustion after working 18 hours straight...
...interpreted Bacon's remarks about the importance of the chain of command as letting most of the guys in my outfit off the hook. After all, we weren't in command of anybody. And we could hardly be charged with "conduct unbecoming to an officer." When it comes to adultery, enlisted men may have reason to be grateful for a double standard...
Once, he was punched by another driver during a traffic argument, and thereafter carried a piece of plastic that resembled a meat hook, the mere appearance of which he says helped to settle road disputes more smoothly...
...used the new numbers to zero in on what she feels is the real problem: the public schools. "Our high schools graduate black and Hispanic students who are way behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative-action crusaders as Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who led the Proposition 209 campaign, are calling for "outreach": targeted efforts to help minority high school students perform better. "I am in favor of things that will reach out to those families...