Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maternal pounds around the hips. Before the couple's enforced separations, then separations by choice: Fergie's impulsive flyaways to Alpine ski slopes and Mediterranean beaches, parties with dubious friends and displays of desperate merriment. Before Andrew began to slam her pals as "poncey philistines," and she to knock his sometimes boorish behavior as "terribly gauche...
Here it is, almost a quarter-century later, and Garth Brooks, 30, is still the star of Funny Night, a family ritual from his childhood in Yukon (pop. 21,400), the Oklahoma City suburb where young Troyal Garth Brooks would knock himself out trying to outshine his sister and four brothers. Only difference now is that the venue's gotten bigger, and the stakes higher. Dramatically higher. Today this guy with the excess longitude under the chin is the new face of pop music...
...After they knock him around? I mean, you described "jumping in," the brutal gang initiation rites where they beat up the new kid before accepting him as a member...
Performance poetry is nothing new, but the point of the Slam is to knock your opponents out of competition--a boxing ring with literary types. Brown and his wife Patricia Smith brought the Slam to Boston from Chicago, where competitive poetry reading has been part of the scene for years. Local poets come to the Bookcellar every week to perform their pieces for the audience and for randomly chosen judges, who hold up Olympic-style scorecards. Poets steel themselves for rejection; the audience cheers or growls for their favorites. The more reaction, the better...
...knock, knock, knock on people's door's" says Chapman. She adds that their average donation...