Word: straps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...momentum as breezy vocals and serpentine horn charts glide over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...
...himself, and four times he denied them. "If I wanted to commit suicide," he told them, "I would have done that a long time ago." Agents pointed out that Koresh had backed away from the brink before. On March 2, when he was supposed to surrender, he arranged to strap grenades to his body, come out and blow himself up in front of TV cameras. All the preparations were made, he kissed the children goodbye in the chapel -- and then, at the last moment, "chickened out," Ricks said...
Unless you are born with feathers, flying requires a leap of faith. Passengers have to assume, when they strap themselves in, that a 500,000-lb. machine hurtling through the air is firmly in the pilot's control. That faith was shaken last week by a report that a DC-10 coming into New York's Kennedy airport recently almost crashed when a passenger in first class turned on his portable compact disc player...
...most memorable element of the movie are the concerts, where Roberts, played by Tim Robbins, croons conservative tunes with lyrics such as "This land was made for me," "Drugs stink, they make me sick" and "Times are changing back." He also strums a guitar with a stars and stripes strap around his neck...
...strangers appeared at her window, forced her out of the car and sped off. Basu, her left arm still helplessly tangled in the harness strap of her seat belt, was dragged facedown across the coarse pavement until there was nothing left of her clothes but the bloodstained blouse on her back...