Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging. And because the music seems once removed, the production often lacks the one quality that every directorial stroke was intended to achieve: immediacy...
...year ago, before Diller hooked up with Malone at QVC, the cultural elite considered shopping by TV a joke, unworthy of serious interest. But Diller's involvement in one stroke transformed home shopping's image from pathetic trailer-park quasi-entertainment to visionary locomotive into the future. Yet he must have realized the frenzied run-up of his stock wouldn't continue indefinitely, and he certainly knows, according to a friend, that without a real Hollywood movie studio he cannot be a full-fledged member of Hollywood royalty. Analysts can talk about corporate fit and maximizing shareholder assets all they...
After the intermission, the Crimson wasted no time launching another assault on the Springfield goalie. Just two minutes into the half, its efforts gave Walton the hat trick, as the senior scored on another penalty stroke when she placed the ball beautifully into the upper left corner...
...from heart surgery, glanced at the Oval Office and thought of the day in 1948 when at the last minute word came that "the Jewish State" would be called "Israel" and the documents for recognition had to be altered by pen before Harry Truman could sit down and firmly stroke his name. Present at the creation -- and now at what Clifford thought could be a renewal for the entire Middle East...
...Clinton's] going to say to the left that'It's my plan or nothing' and he'll say to theright 'It's my plan or Canada,'" he says. "It's amasterful stroke. The left will have to support itbecause they don't want nothing and the right willsupport it because they don't want Canada...