Word: louder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard men's tennis team can properly integrate its old and new faces into a rejuvenated Ivy powerhouse, expect those yells to get louder and more frequent...
...Many of the confessions transcribed in the report have that "suddenly-I- realized-I-was-wrong" tone. But sometimes, actions speak louder than words. In some cases, the U.S. troops - contrary to their chocolate-tossing image - were little more than the infamous "Blue Meanies" that terrorized Pepperland in the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" movie. Soldiers would knock down the carefully constructed stacks of cigarette packs that vendors had built...
...Acts who broke through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...
...This is New York, of course, where just about everything is bigger, louder and faster (at least in the state's southeast corner). The Empire State's U.S. Senate races have always commanded more fanfare and more money than in almost any other. And this year, that age-old trend has been ratcheted up to the nth degree. It's not just the enormity of the contributions; it's the scale of the whole race: As if a statewide campaign is being fought on a national canvas and no one seems to think it's the slightest bit strange...
...weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian's mother emerges slowly from the ocean, her gown drenched, and softly, in a voice that gradually grows louder, she sings of her loss. "She's like the commentator in Evita," Graham explains, humming a few bars. Can he work in a Tennessee waltz...