Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When two dozen student protesters seized Massachusetts Hall at dawn on April 20, 1972 and began a 153-hour seige, it was the climax of events that started in August and escalated as the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) pushed and pulled against President Derek C. Bok's new administration...
...Saving Private Ryan, a World War II saga starring Tom Hanks. Ever since Jaws in 1975, Spielberg has led the way for mainstream movies, with their kinetic savvy and kid-centric sentiment. To an extent, they are what he has been. But what is he now? Has Peter Pan grown...
...proverbial frying pan and into the fire for the 18th ranked Harvard men's lacrosse team...
Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in an era of shrinking arts education, are showing less interest in the classical standards. Meanwhile, younger classical performers, themselves suckled on pop, want to play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff...
...Weekley and her ex-husband Jackie was a violent one. Kay admitted that previous to Jackie's murder, she had shot up his car with him in it. The jury also heard evidence that on an earlier occasion she had Maced him and had beaten him with a frying pan while he slept. Her version of the knife fight that preceded Jackie's murder was not believable. Kay wasn't the only one hurt; Jackie went to the hospital...