Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, after a disappointing 80-65 loss to Navy at Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard journeyed to the Lone Star State. Texas-Arlington was not ready for the bombs Harvard's shooters packed with them, as it was massacred by the Crimson...
...well party guy, the angst-ridden outsider, the addled but lovable omnivore. But that proved to be true life as well, reflecting a fierce appetite for beer, cocaine and heroin, food and women. He went through drug- and alcohol-rehab clinics, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and weight-loss centers with little success. He once sneaked out of Santa Monica's Pritikin diet facility to inhale desserts with Tom Arnold. He was a universal addict...
...news. The only figures on the rise were those for bankruptcies, unemployment and suicides. National confidence congealed into a deep gloom as headlines warned of the coming "Great Depression." The government that for so many decades guided the economy with an iron hand is floundering, seemingly at a loss for ways to yank the country out of its tailspin. Kazumi Ehara, an auto salesman in suburban Tokyo, speaks for many of his countrymen when he says, "The Japanese people have been told repeatedly by the government that the economy will get better, only to be betrayed. I can no longer...
Memory and its creeping loss are the themes that give Barney's Version its depth. The Ten Commandments and their discontents are what keeps the pages turning. Barney is a flamboyant sinner. What can you say about a guy who immediately tries to run off with a woman he meets at his own wedding, or plays practical jokes on the elderly? But did Barney really kill Boogie, an old friend and international moocher who was caught in the act with the second...
When Marcus Roberts titles an album Blues for the New Millennium (Columbia), it's no casual gesture. Having played regularly with Wynton Marsalis, the pianist shares with his former bandleader a taste for pedagogy, historicism and sheer ambition. Roberts' two most recent albums were a song cycle about romantic loss and rebirth, and a jazzman's reclamation of Rhapsody in Blue. The new disc begins with basics--covers of Robert Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton--and then branches out with 12 self-penned numbers. The climax, Roberts writes, "symbolizes what the whole record is about...our belief that jazz (blues...