Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small fire continued near the driver's seat until the flames consumed the rest of the bus, sending a thick cloud of black smoke and a foul odor into the air, witnesses said...
...dynamic duo of Perry and Campbell, who are almost single-handedly responsible for a Brown offense that averages 36-points a game, will put the pressure on senior quarterback Brad Wilford and the rest of the Harvard offense to have a big game...
...checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...
...across the stage like gazelles, these performers are among the most talented in the world. Riverdance deserves its success. But I worry. See, the dancers can really only last 10-15 minutes at a time because the intensity and energy required for a particular number is excruciating. So the rest of the time is filler--often thuddingly, anachronistic, cliched, diluted filler. At one point, a blues singer launches into almost a mini-opera about liberation from bondage (I confused it for a Civil War hymn at first)--it entirely changes the show's tone. Seconds later, of course, the bouncing...
...Crimson's third title in four years is a struggling Bears team. Brown has been in a tailspin of sorts ever since its third game of the year. After beginning the 1999 campaign with a 2-1 record, the Bears have gone winless the rest of the way, losing 10 of its last 11 games...