Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Made for Walkin' -- the sort of thing he actually heard last week. To pry Koresh and his followers from their armed camp near Waco, Texas, federal agents bombarded the place at high volume with irritating songs, Tibetan chants and the piercing tone of a phone left off the hook. Every morning they even provided Koresh with the sound of a trumpet. It blasted reveille -- over and over again...
...predictable in its basics: neurasthenic young woman falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...
...hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
...western nightclub in Santa Monica, California, and the joint is jumping -- literally. Under a spinning glitterball flanked by stuffed moose and deer heads, several hundred people in boots and ten-gallon hats are doing something called the Electric Slide. As a band pumps out a country hit, the dancers hook their thumbs in the front pockets of their jeans and line up shoulder to shoulder. Moving together to the beat, they cross one foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth on their heels and kick high. Egged...
...paid [the bill] the same day [the line] was turned off," said Scott R. Levy '94, Lederman's roommate. "They didn't take long to hook it back up," he added, observing that by 3 a.m. that night the line was working again...