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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...five-story building offers a telling symbol for what has happened to the man who used to be known as the Bad Boy of Modern Dance. Openly gay and utterly frank, he wore his hair in a messy mop, tossed off unprintable remarks about his colleagues in a braying class-clown voice, and made startlingly fresh dances whose loose-limbed, heavy-gaited steps (Morris' wonderful dancers can look like James Thurber cartoons come to life) did nothing to conceal his passionately inspired response to music of all kinds (Baroque, Balinese, even country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Bad Boy Comes of Age | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

DAVE GROHL IS A BIG TEASE. With a mop of dark shaggy hair covering his face and tight black pants hardly masking his ultra slender body, the leader of the Foo Fighters recently wowed a packed crowd at the Worcester Palladium with both his onstage antics and his immense musical prowess. For over an hour, the band-featuring Grohl on guitar and vocals and occasionally drums, Nate Mendel on bass, Taylor Hawkins on drums and guitarist Chris Shiflett along for the nationwide tour-rocked hard, splicing and dicing most of the songs from their 1999 album, There is Nothing Left...

Author: By Stacy A. Porter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOO | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...test might be intellectual rather than physical. Ask the boys to solve a riddle. (Let's have no captious cracks about how this would stack the game against poor dim W. Remember when everyone said that Gore would mop the floor with Bush in the debates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Joust for the White House? | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...acid to dry it out, and apply a good cover-up. The last thing he'd want to do is slap on a big boo-boo strip. It distracted from what he was saying. Showing pimples under stress won't help with Middle East negotiations: 'Excuse me while I mop my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60-Second Symposium | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Midshipmen took advantage of several Harvard miscues early on and raced out to a 9-3 halftime lead. The game was essentially over at that point, and Navy used both its second- and third-string goalies in mop-up duty...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Falls at Easterns | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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