Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once you reach that limit, rowing confronts you with the terrifying prospect of having to determine whether you have the will to stand up to the challenge or just shrink away. Indeed, rowing will educate you in a more valuable way than anything in the classroom can. The moment You resolve to pick up an oar, there's no turning back: you are committed to the very...
...means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift...
...Phish's musical essence resides more in its live shows than its discs. The band's concerts are known for their peaceable vibes and grand scale (one show drew 135,000) as well as for marathon, free-floating jams that range across rock, jazz, blues and whatever inspiration the moment brings. Songs gather into easy crescendos that encourage audience self-discovery rather than catharsis. For Ghost the band culled the best of a dozen new jams, trimming and rerecording them in the studio. Songs like Birds of a Feather have the spark of spontaneity without self-indulgence. Should Phish...
...moment is approaching. Already, Governor David Beasley of South Carolina, faced with allegations that he had an affair with his former press secretary, has felt the need to deny all at a press conference that featured not only the Governor and his wife but also the press secretary and her husband--the sort of gathering that could become the 1998 campaign's version of double dating...
...other. And that issue is probably moot since the chance is slim he'll raise his hand and swear an oath before a committee of mostly junior Congressmen peering down at him from their platform armchairs. Clinton would not be likely to have a transcendent, Ollie North moment; he's not an unknown lieutenant colonel with a cause to defend...