Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divorced wife and their five- year-old daughter. In North Carolina an airman hacked his wife to pieces, wrapped her remains in plastic garbage bags and stored them in the refrigerator. In Hawaii a sailor killed his baby daughter, stuffing her into a duffel bag and tossing her into Pearl Harbor. A soldier in Germany, angered at his wayward spouse, decapitated her G.I. lover and placed the severed head atop his wife's nightstand...
...artistic leader is Martha Graham, who invented a vocabulary for modern dance -- "the one art form other than jazz," said choreographer Paul Taylor, who had been a member of her company, "that can be called truly American." The intriguing antitype is Madonna, who briefly studied with Graham's disciple Pearl Lang. The essential difference? Graham "not only performed a dance but preached an aesthetic," Wills argues. When Madonna performs, she merely entertains...
Nixon probably would not have been content to stay in Whittier forever, but < Pearl Harbor uprooted his whole generation. He knew that if he was ever to have a political career, he would have to join the armed forces. So despite the Quaker belief in pacifism, he won a commission in the Navy in June 1942. He served creditably as a supply officer in New Caledonia, then the Solomon Islands. His most remarkable activity, though, was to become a master at bluffing in stud poker. By the end of the war, he had won and saved a stake estimated...
...knocking Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the charts, the album fibrillated the psyche of a generation. It also launched the commercial vogue for grunge and made Seattle famous for something other than cappuccino, rain and bad professional sports. Before long, equally abrasive Seattle groups like Pearl Jam (a Nirvana rival), Mudhoney and Alice in Chains joined Nirvana high on the charts. The New Liverpool, Rolling Stone called the city in early 1992 (launching searches for the New Seattle...
Rather than increasing quantity, perhaps more funds could be used to help the council increase the quality of its events. Another $60,000 in the councils' budget would mean that it could invite, say, Pearl Jam rather than Machinery Hall, Eric Clapton rather than They Might Be Giants...