Word: shades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing high-heeled shoes. Then there are ruptures of the Achilles tendon. In the unconditioned, the unexpected force exerted by rapid movements sometimes causes the tendon, which runs from the muscle in back of the leg down to the heel, to snap and roll up like a window shade. At the net, tennis players often suffer orbital injuries -blows to the ring of bone surrounding the eye. Says Gilbert Gleim, a biomedical researcher at Lenox Hill Hospital's Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in New York City: "The opponent slams the ball and our Saturday...
...title. There are a lot of victims, like the girl in Racing in the Street, one of Springsteen's best songs, who "stares off alone into the night/ With the eyes of one who hates for just being born." Intimations of guilt and the dim promise of salvation shade and deepen the darkness, but for every casualty it claims, there are others who strain against it. "Badlands, you gotta live it every day," Springsteen sings in the opening number...
...still shone high over the tiny Mediterranean resort of San Carlos de la Rapita. Most of the 600 French, West German and Belgian tourists at Los Alfaques (the Sandbars) campsite were eating a leisurely sitdown lunch in front of their tents and trailers or at picnic tables under the shade of palm and cypress trees. Others were dozing off for a vacation siesta. Groups of children romped among the sunbathers basking on the narrow beach...
...subject never came up at the congress, of course, where delegates dutifully sang the hagiographic ditty, Comrade Tito, We Swear that We Will Not Deviate from Your Line. Nor did Tito give a hint that he was anything but eternal. His hair still a perky shade of red, and looking tanned and relaxed in a jaunty, Palm Beach-style cream-colored suit, Tito delivered an hour-long series of excerpts from a 92-page policy address that was remarkable for its globe-spanning comprehensiveness-plus, in certain respects, its blandness. He soberly warned of the dangers of a new world...
...shop somewhere along the border of pop and folk. No mainstreams for Cooder. He is forever taking off on side trips, turning down dusty country paths to retrieve some old bit of blues or roadhouse folk, sailing off to Hawaii and plucking some sweet melody straight out of the shade...