Word: poked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finishing in the box is pure grit," Zotter said. "We're a finesse team and we want everything to look good, to make the perfect shot. We need to do the dirty things, even a poke or an elbow, to get the ball in the goal. We don't always need the pretty goal, it is all the same on paper...
Weil's first brush with demi-fame came in 1962, when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Writing for the Harvard Crimson, he fell into an unlikely assignment: poke around the psychology department and investigate rumors that students and professors there were openly experimenting with illegal drugs. The substance of choice was the so far little-known hallucinogen LSD. The professors providing it were the so far little-known Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary...
...tell a lot about a singer-composer's intent on an album by her choice of cover songs. The ones here, like Curtis' I Fought the Law, tiptoe toward depression, then poke it in the ribs. The broody lyrics of Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...
...finest moment, in "ashes," is a haunting and serious meditation on his mother's death from cancer. But when we arrive at the final essay, the title piece, we realize Sedaris wants to do more than be funny. He spends time in a nudist colony not only to poke fun at people but also to be able to present the world in all its unadorned vericose-veininess, its rippling obesity and sexual deformity: not a bright or pleasant vision, but a deftly-delivered one that rings true and invites people to examine their own lives...
...break by Henry Higdon and Craig Adams was the first spoiled chance as Cornell senior Steve Wilson, showing why he is an All-ECAC defenseman, dove from behind Higdon to poke the puck out of danger...