Word: struck
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...Matsui shouldered much of the scoring load for Columbia in the first half. The senior began the game hitting two long-distance three-pointers to send the Lions to a 6-0 lead, and he struck again later in the first half to tie the game...
...Obama’s aides, the nightmare is a depression like the one that struck Japan in the 1990s, and a slow government response is the bogeyman. Geithner and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers were Clinton officials when a real-estate bubble in Japan burst, dragging the country into a decade-long slump. Alarmed by the downfall, they watched Tokyo gradually approve stimulus spending and scatter funding across projects—to no avail...
...time was 5:45 am. Walking past a deserted Kennedy Center, it struck my group that in the past ten minutes we had seen several sets of blue-red police lights but not a single fellow civilian. Deserted shopping complexes and the occasional pack of home-bound partiers constituted the early morning scene at the riverbank. The light of a purring black helicopter scanned the fractured sheets coating the Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell...
...seems to suggest conventional Western spirituality; the photographer’s apparent awkwardness in such garb intimates the discomfort of his relationship with these religious values, perhaps due to his homosexuality and his African heritage.Throughout “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989),” the audience is struck by similarly evocative and potent images that present an individual crashing against and through boundaries created by his circumstances. Akin to a subject placed under trance by Yoruba shamans, the viewer of “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)” can retain focus or be distracted, drawn...
...derived from the goddess Cunina who guarded infants in their cradles. The new perspective given to the word is indicative of the goal of the play as a whole: to transform the way the female body and female sexuality is viewed. While preparing for her audition, Smith was struck not only by the opportunity to become involved in theater, but by the significance of the show’s message. “I should be speaking this,” Smith says. “I need to speak this, because I feel so strongly about...