Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...join him in Australia for a four-month stay after Christmas. Geldof said he didn't want his children to be away for so long. Angered, Hutchence phoned him and, according to a neighbor at the Ritz, shouted, "She's not your wife anymore!" Geldof denies there was a row and said Hutchence made no sense on the phone. Hutchence, he said, had barraged him with calls for months and "was always off his head...
...death penalty brings vengeance and solace to the families of victims. In fact, executions must be speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...
...wandered aimlessly and unrecognized around lower Manhattan a few days before the card game and a week before his face landed on the cover of Vanity Fair. "I don't have an apartment; my stuff is in a warehouse in New Jersey. I'm making three movies in a row for all this money... I'm not complaining, you know. But I mean, why is it all happening to me? And if people are expecting this much, will they be mad if I let them down? I don't want to be a flash...
...Yale. As if dropping out of the top U.S. News spot after a brief one-year stint, being prohibited from having sex with your professors and losing a third Game in a row to the Crimson weren't enough, poor Elis live in the 13th most dangerous city in the nation, according to a recent Money Magazine study. Cambridge didn't make the list...
...bold defiance of conventional stage literalism. Dance numbers brim with vibrant, African-carnival colors; the big action sequences, like a wildebeest stampede conveyed by wheels and masks, dazzle with their allusive originality. Some of the most striking images are the simplest. Women with grass headdresses stand in a row and sway to manifest wind in the African savanna. When the lionesses grieve over the death of their King, Mufasa, they pull ribbons of fabric from their eyes to suggest tears...