Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...severe. De la Renta's gowns show the most exquisite materials and embroidery but are presented, as it were, in translation -- to a modern idiom. The last-minute bolts of georgette appear in a series of elegant sheaths, delicately layered, that have the cool beauty of a waterfall. One knockout skirt is of raffia -- the straw-hat material -- that looks amazingly like embroidery...
Jack Nicholson read the words of Abraham Lincoln. Aretha Franklin, a natural woman in a natural fur, sang a hymn to single motherhood from Les Miserables. Kermit the Frog sent Gonzo the Great searching for the White House. Barbra Streisand performed a knockout set and gave her benediction to the party's Arkansas hosts. Warren Beatty, recently married, spoke of political honeymoons. En Vogue and Boys II Men showed that a cappella renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner could have art and soul. Michael Jackson led a chorus of glamourati in We Are the World. Some geezer band from...
Dartmouth, in a knockout...
...evening. Ultimately, though, Sir Andrew's lush, melodic theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout), and star Michael Crawford (the original Phantom) performs with dazzling bravura...
...Knockout] doesn't exist within the city,"Police Commissioner Perry L. Anderson told TheCrimson. "It's not something that's widely knownabout or practiced by people in gangs or peoplenot in gangs...