Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voters say one issue that could give the edgeto Cellucci is the strong economy, with satisfiedvoters content to let the status quo stand...
Band leader Jim Mathus came out wearing a purple suit and a grin. The group appeared comfortably at ease in the dark blues and golds of the Roxy and its small stage. Unlike the Orpheum show, the crowd here was not only allowed to stand and dance, it was encouraged to; Dancers could be seen at various points around the club, but in general, one was either dancing or more often, straining to see the band--a sight which, fortunately, was neither difficult to obtain nor disappointing; the Roxy was so small that any vantage point gave a close view...
...reinvented Amelia Bedelia-style with a suggestiveness that invites one to reconsider the comic potential inherent in even the most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows Harvard students to flesh out those suspicions they'd always been too pretentious to discuss...
...asking too much if we ask the President not to lie the American people, and it's not asking too much of the feminist movement to stand by what they believe," Whitman said...
...best is a band that you sleepwith playing on your stereo, that you have in thebackground when a couple friends are over justhanging out or that you sing with when the sky isclear and the stars are low. Even R.E.M.'s "happy"songs like "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand" seemto cross over the line of carefree pop into amulti-faceted festival. Up proves that R.E.M.hasn't lost it; "it" just went on vacation overthe past six years or so. The band is different,but they've recaptured their old glory and that iswhy "the all-new R.E.M." is a misnomer...