Word: stompings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those heels, the '80s women onstage do strut and stomp. Jasmine Guy, a Diana Ross with funk, does proud by the Tina Turner anthem River Deep -- Mountain High. Laura Theodore works her heft, raunch and four-octave range on a rendition of Ball and Chain that could raise the dead, including Janis Joplin. And to hear Gina Taylor attack Aretha's Do Right Woman -- Do Right Man (four minutes of riffs that ascend into the ionosphere of emotional pride and pain) is to feel a standing ovation from the hairs on the back of your neck. "We're not trying...
...goal of the Saudis' tactic was to drive high-cost non-OPEC oil producers out of business and thus limit energy exploration. To some extent, the swamp 'em and stomp 'em strategy has worked. In the U.S., for example, the number of active drilling rigs has fallen from 1,911 a year ago to fewer than 800 today...
Councillor Alfred Vellucci has a better idea, though. He suggested that "what you need up in your neighborhood is a bug-squisher." He imagines a "bug brigade" that would quietly stomp on pesky fauna at night...
...success and talent, Spielberg's weaknesses are prominently displayed in this foray beyond the safe climes of thrill-a-minute B-movie homages and suburban kiddie flicks. He is a craftsman, not an auteur, and one hopes his artistic imperialism will not cause him to stomp all over Anglo-Saxon culture's other golems...
...Stomp it, Gramma!" I cried, just in time for another volley of four-wheeled bullets to whisk...