Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Play With Dolls," a quasi-ballad sung by Jed Eyenite, with its hero's admission that whenever there are brawls, "I'll be skipping 'round my garden, twirling parasols"; "Stick Out Your Chest," an ensemble number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart but he gave me his mouse...
...Morris, there comes a moment when the President, sick of struggling to pay for the TV advertising that Morris had started more than a year before Election Day, unburdens himself: "I can't think. I can't act. I can't do anything but go to fund raisers and shake hands...
...setting: the isolated west coast of Sweden. Educated as an economist, Barnevik left a management-consulting job to help a troubled Swedish steel company. Success there led to the ceo spot at Asea, a large electrical-engineering firm then in decline. Barnevik carried out a radical and initially painful shake-up, dubbed "Percy's reign of terror...
...what his own life had been. When visitors talked of injustice in China, he dismissed them with a wave of his hand. What the West would regard as injustice did not concern him much. These were niceties that neither he nor his country could afford. I saw Deng shake with real anger only when he talked about the Vietnamese, whom he saw as impudent. When Deng complained bitterly to Vice President Walter Mondale about the "ungrateful" Vietnamese, Mondale wryly noted, "We have had some experience of our own with the Vietnamese." Deng did not even smile...
Harvard did not shoot as well against Penn as it did the previous night against Princeton. As a result, the Crimson was unable to shake the pesky Quakers until the very end of the contest...