Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refrained from speculating in a disrespectful manner on whether the pantheon of memorable lines by modern American politicians--lines like "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"--would be expanded after this election to include not only Bill Clinton's most stirring remarks about school uniforms and the length of hospital maternity stays but also "Beach volleyball is what freedom is all about...
When we heard that MTV's "The Real World" wanted to recruit at Harvard for a Boston season, our minds began to whirl. Harvard students have many attributes, not least among them their ability to digress at length upon angst-ridden topics. Give them a camera, and hey, you might never get them to shut...
...prove his point, he picked up a book required for his math class. The length: 192 pages. The style: paper-back. The price...
There's no doubt that the show is a tour de force, for performer and designers alike. Amblad is the only thing to look at for the whole length of the show, and it takes a lot of nerve to do what he is called upon to do. At one point, he twitches his mouth in sync with a train whistle; at another, he pretends to be electrocuted as we hear a loud buzz; towards the end, he actually bangs his head and face repeatedly into the seat of his chair, and he does it hard, so that...
...mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...