Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although Owens was probably well aware of the irony as he stood on the medal stand, I'd like to think that he took pleasure in his mere participation at the Games. I'd like to think that he didn't see his medals is a justified attempt to rub the Nazis' roses in the dirt, but as an attempt to show that he and other athletes were above politics...
...races and the Kentucky Derby. The Jersey Derby comes nine days after the Preakness, and Spend A Buck cannot keep both appointments. "We're in the business to win purses," Diaz said, pointing out ominously that there are other routes to high stud fees than the Triple Crown. The rub is there are none sweeter...
...Riding Hood motif dreams of Rosaleen provide the ostensible framework for all the werewolf permutations. We only rub against reality during the very wispy frame scenes that depict nothing much: Rosaleen breathes heavily in her sleep. Rosaleen's unconscious takes over, Rosaleen meets handsome men, Rosaleen meets hand-some wolf...
...much a part of our universal educational lives as our first ruby-colored Monarch's Notes, it is the Pop in Fresh Dough of theatre: break open the cover, add water or conscious actors and you have your crescent role or your first-rate drama. And there's the rub: Cousin Pearl may like the prefabricated rolls, but the real credit, you know, belongs to the doughman, not you. Throw a dozen or so actors in front of an audience--even have them read their lines from their dog-cared Riverside edition--and the audience claps wildly--for Bill...
...trying to help out the Ethiopians, or merely indulging in massive star adulation through bad music? The most frequent reaction I have encountered to the project has not been "What an amazing song," or "How great for the starving Ethiopians," but "How neat to see Bob Dylan rub shoulders with Bruce Springsteen." In the Life magazine article, the video, and even the album cover, not one picture of the Ethiopians appears. Instead, the whole affair is being sold as a sort of charity ball of musical megatonnage in the interest of "...saving out lives It's true, just...