Word: roughnesses
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...girl growing up in the coastal town of LaRochelle. In 1987 she finished third in her first cross-Atlantic solo race. Her dream came true in 1991, when she became the first woman ever to complete the Around Alone challenge. But even that huge triumph was not without trial. Rough seas and high winds claimed her mast as she neared Australia. With a makeshift rig, she was able to reach port and make repairs. She finished the race, but her boat came in seventh...
Clarkson will be no easier on Saturday night, when the Crimson comes up against the No. 1 team in the ECAC. The Knights are known for their rough style of hockey, something Harvard is very familiar with...
...lotta ominous synthesizer chords ganging up on people onscreen without warning sometimes--but, no worries, don't stay home because of that. Stay home if you're expecting anything other than a couple of needy people, one alcoholic (always recovering), one civil servant, trying to match up. It's rough--not stylized--but real. Subtitles and film quality make it feel once in a while like documentary, but a good one. The comic voice finds vent on occasion, too, fortunately not through concerted effort, soccer uniform jokes and all (though the line about Brazil's worth it), but a brash...
Harvard gradually picked up its play through the second and third periods and began to match Union's grinding and banging. The extra rough stuff produced a total of 12 man-up situations, including a 54 second two-man advantage in the second for the Skating Dutchmen, which the Crimson killed rather easily...
...will we remember the last days of the '90s? Most likely, to the rough-hewn beat of rap. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in the jazz age, just as Dylan and Jimi Hendrix were among the rulers of the age of rock, it could be argued that we are living in the age of hip-hop. "Rock is old," says Russell Simmons, head of the hip-hop label Def Jam, which took in nearly $200 million in 1998. "It's old people's s____. The creative people who are great, who are talking about youth culture...