Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, like a shaft of lightning or a sign from the heavens, the Harvard men's hockey team won--and won decisively...
...diverse material into a single book. He renders, as tellingly as ever, the magic of individual moments. A movie begins in a small theater: "The heavy purple curtains drew back and the orange side lamps dimmed and in the air above their heads, with a racheted whir, a shuddering shaft of light surprised a few winged bugs, suddenly turned into darting, looping stars." But to fill up the long stretches between inspirations, Updike relies on recitations of headlines and on reams of relatively undigested research: how to grow and pick asparagus, how to operate a suppository-making machine...
...film industry has a long history of both catering to certain populations and never ignoring marketable trends. Blaxploitation movies like "Shaft" and "Cleopatra Jones" and techno-fear movies like "War Games" and "The Net" are good examples. When self-conscious marketing towards minority groups clashes with Hollywood's insatiable desire for money, we are assaulted with terribly confused, relatively lame efforts such as "To Wong roo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar...
...communique. I know that I will have to, if I enter public life, come down on those issues. But I haven't declared myself a candidate. I will have to learn, but it doesn't mean I have to rush through it right now and leap down an elevator shaft. What you're asking me to do is put myself up on Capitol Hill and say exactly whether I'm for the Clinton version of welfare reform or the Bob Dole version of welfare reform. I don't know enough...
...concert last month in New York City, D'Angelo was ushered on stage by his band playing the theme from Shaft. And on his new album he delivers a mellow, unpretentious version of Smokey Robinson's classic Cruisin'. D'Angelo, 21, has a pleasant, floating falsetto, and he shows his vocal skills off well on Cruisin' as well as on the romantic, melodic Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine. He could, however, work a bit more on his lyrics, which lack the lubricated finesse evident in the rest of his songcraft. On Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine...