Word: horned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...population are problem gamblers, and those 5% are spending 30% to 40% of the money." Critics charge that because the industry is so dependent on this small group, it appeals deliberately and relentlessly to them. "It's not so much a privacy concern as an addiction concern," says Bernie Horn, an official with the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, "because slot clubs have a high percentage of addicts among their membership...
Despite the inclement weather, the Harvard sailing team braved the elements in the name of the Mike Horn Trophy at the Harvard Sailing Center...
...piece isolates colors of the orchestra, either in solo or choir, allowing for great contrasts in instrumentation and texture. The winds throughout were exceptional: the extended English horn solo of the slow second movement was technically flawless, delicate and expressive and balanced perfectly with the orchestra. The third movement, with its searing if not overbearing triangle tremolos, was carried by the performance of the timpani. When loud, as in the first and last movements, the brass was sharp and tight; when delicate, as in the opening chorale of the second movement, they showed amazing sensitivity to dynamics and melodic contour...
...Dara Horn's column appears on alternate Fridays...
...unfortunate "murder" of rhinos by orphaned elephants (and vice versa) is nothing new. The Roman naturalist Pliny observed that one of the great "antipathies of nature" exists between the rhinoceros and its natural enemy, the elephant. Pliny recounts how the rhinoceros sharpens its horn against a rock and charges the elephant full tilt, aiming "straight at the belly, which he knows to be more tender than the rest." In the 1830s, explorer James Edward Alexander described the following interaction between these two enemies: "When the elephant and the rhinoceros come together and are mutually enraged, the rhinoceros, avoiding the blow...