Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to usual leaders junior captain Ed Baker and senior Dave Martin, who both finished in the top 30, debuting freshman Nathan Shenk-Boright made an immediate impact on the college scene, finishing just 30 seconds off Martin's pace...
...behind, and making another strong debut on the college running scene was freshman Pat Boehm, who took fourth for Harvard in an almost equally stunning time of 27:02 over the draining five-mile course...
...hour after his big speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate reminisces about the 11-year...
...Morris had a President who moved events. He seems to want to believe that to be true of Reagan as well. Morris says as much in the final, cloying scene of the book. He tells the reader that he himself was one of the people lifeguard Dutch saved from the river, and concludes: "Some day, I hoped, America might acknowledge her similar debt to the old Lifeguard who rescued her in a time of poisonous despair...
...Gwynne's article on the rap singers who moved into an exclusive gated community in Louisiana [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 30] has prompted me to write. I work with Johannesburg's street children. I talk to them about their lives and how rap music relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people...