Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music business could use the lift. Album sales in 1998 are up only 4.3% over 1997, so record companies are praying for a flashy fourth quarter (the holiday season accounts for 40% to 60% of annual record sales). DreamWorks, for example, is releasing not one but three sound tracks (pop, country and inspirational) to its film The Prince of Egypt. Will fans be overjoyed or overwhelmed? James ("Jimmy Jam") Harris, who produced a song on one of the sound tracks, says Super Tuesday has the industry "holding its breath...
...costly habit may get costlier. A $206 billion agreement reached between the tobacco industry and state attorneys general, who had sued to recoup Medicaid costs, could lift the price of a cigarette pack by about 40[cents] over five years (vs. $1.10 under an earlier proposal). But perhaps your kids will save a bundle--if tobacco firms fulfill a pledge not to promote their products to young people...
Romeo and Juliet was danced by principal dancers Julie Kent and Guillaume Graffin. Julie Kent was, in a word, stunning. Kent's Juliet was extremely delicate and tender and her incredibly thin figure folded and melted around Graffin. Her shy and coy youthfulness came through in each lift and embrace. Kenneth MacMillan's choreography is one of the most passionate that I have seen for this pas de deux. While it included sweeping lifts and movements across the stage, the most moving moments came when the two dancers were kneeling together at center stage and Graffin lifted Juliet over...
MONTREAL--Eric Houde and Jonas Hoglund each scored his first goal of the season in the third period to lift the Montreal Canadiens over the Calgary Flames last night...
...came crunching down on my chest, and the old guy totally just freaked out and couldn't get it off and I started yelling "get it off, get it off," but then he just started yelling too, and the stairmaster chick had to come over and help us lift it off my neck. Yo, now I have to go all the way to the QRAC because I'm so embarrassed...