Word: stingingly
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DIED. JULIA PHILLIPS, 57, producer of such 1970s movie hits as The Sting and Taxi Driver, whose biting 1991 book, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, scandalized Hollywood; of cancer; in West Hollywood, Calif. Phillips skewered herself along with celebrities like Warren Beatty ("priapic") and Mike Ovitz ("a Valley viper") in her book. Of the angry reaction in Hollywood, Phillips said, "I wasn't a pariah because I was a drug-addicted...rotten person [but] because I lit them with a harsh fluorescent light and rendered them as contemptible as they truly...
...scored 30 points in back-to-back games. On Feb. 6, 1998, current Eliot House tutor Suzie Miller ’98 scored 33 points—including a school-record eight three-pointers—in a 90-74 win against Penn. The next day, current Charlotte Sting forward Allison Feaster ’98 scored 34 points in a 56-53 loss to Princeton...
Last month the supersonic Concorde - grounded for 15 months after a disaster of its own - returned to commercial flight. Rock star Sting, a passenger on that first flight, called it a symbol of the return to normal life. Well, maybe...
...Beatles, was also a godfather of world music. By studying with Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and playing the sitar himself on songs like "Norwegian Wood" and "Within You Without You," he helped bring the sounds of the East into Western pop. Since Harrison, pop musicians ranging from Sting to David Byrne to Marc Anthony have felt free to sample from music from around the world in their pop and it's partly because of the barriers that Harrison broke down. For Harrison, combining musical cultures came naturally. Said Harrison: "When I first consciously heard Indian music...
...With the sting of last Tuesday’s 8-4 blowout at the hands of Boston University still fresh, Harvard (3-4-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) looked to rebound against the defending national champion...