Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haunting, subdued bass line that introduces Lunapark, Luna2's excellent debut record, establishes a unique tone--relaxed but urgent, lazy but occasionally frenetic--that persists through 12 songs. The first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...
Still, in the coming months, students and administrators must work hard to insure that more than 95 Black students participate in Orientation Week next fall. We cannot allow a slide into the all-white traditions of Harvard's past...
...early 1800s. It is hardly an obvious location. The theory of plate tectonics says quakes should happen most often along the edges of crustal plates, pancakes of rock a few score miles thick and thousands of miles across, which carry the continents on their backs as they slide across the semimolten mantle below. The plates ride over each other or grind together, and the earth shakes. But New Madrid is right in the middle of a plate, a place where earthquakes are generally not seen...
...most havoc in Britain. When sterling plummeted well below its permitted floor, Major called a series of emergency meetings with key Cabinet members. "This is bloody awful," he reportedly told them. "It's that damned Bundesbank." When dramatic increases in British interest rates failed to halt the slide, the government conceded defeat and ordered the "temporary suspension" of sterling from the fixed exchange-rate system...
Last night's BSA meeting included a slide showfeaturing speakers and protests from last year inaddition to Ali's talk