Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strings occupy a special, not particularly exalted place in jazz, their use generally signifying either a descent into pop schlock or an ill-advised stab at European art-music "legitimacy." Or, in the worst cases, a truly appalling amalgamation of the two. Charlie Parker's recordings with strings are probably the genre's acme. With their mostly undistinguished arrangements backing the saxophonist as if he were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your...
...labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility...had been dealt a fatal stab to the heart...
What's day like for a stripper at the Players Club, where the girls' stab wounds and bullet holes are only out-paced by the number of kids that they have? That's a joke. This is an impressive first effort from Ice Cube. His premise: the characters might grow during the course of this movie, but understand that every day isn't an epiphany day--most days people just go around doing what they do. Even though there's a main character, Cube showcases a lot of inter-connected lives. But the one real treat was the cat fight...
According to the Suffolk County chief medical examiner's office, Okrent, who was 20, died of an acute massive hemorrhage caused by a self-inflicted stab wound to the neck that perforated his left columnal carotid artery...
...time low in Brisbane, bickering onstage with the rest of the band and, worse, inflicting his whingeing vocals on the audience. To round off Gallagher's stellar week, Cathay Pacific Airways barred the rock group from its flights. A spokeswoman claims that Gallagher threatened to stab one of the airline's pilots while flying into Perth. Brother Noel's response to those allegations: "I don't know, that's just Liam...