Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band is better with its guitars than Sonic Youth. And no Sonic Youth album is better than Dirty, a delicious, raw, high-energy hour of controlled cacophony that highlights the prowess of guitarists Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore. Lyrics, provided by both Moore and bassist Kim Gordon, range from the political to the sexual to the anecdotal. This is penetrating stuff. The strongest tracks include "100%," "Sugar Kane," "Wish Fulfillment," "Chapel Hill," and "Purr...
While the "families" matched their knowledge of Dunster idiosyncrasies, other students showed off their noisemaking and posturing prowess as the `right-wrong' buzzers sounded under the direction of hosts Peter J. Kolovas `93 and Gordon N. Lederman...
There is an unpredictable, impish streak in the Russian character often expressed in the desire to confound expectations and astonish with feats of prowess. The Russians have always longed to drive their national troika at breakneck speed, forcing other nations, in Gogol's words, to "look askance, as they step aside to give her the right of way." Now history has accorded them a unique chance...
Indeed, expect the junior to focus on hisoffensive production this year. That's whereHarvard needs him most--his scoring prowess shouldbe an accurate barometer of the team's success.Drury opened this season with a pair of goalsagainst Brown, responding well to the pressurehanging on that Crimson...
Readers went to Cooper not for his sociology but for his hero, Natty Bumppo, better known by his nicknames: Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking. Here was a new myth for a new world, a character whose prowess would suit him for Homer or the Round Table, scouting the shores of the Hudson River. His particular fascination is that however many unnecessary words Cooper may stuff in his mouth, Natty is laconic in action. He never fails to act when he must, and never acts when he doesn't need to. He is a man without anxiety -- "what Adam might have been...