Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Closure Industry has not been able to sweep up and move on, for all the round-the-clock coverage. In the past our public pageants have concluded with the funeral, the cortege carrying the body of the beloved President or princess. In the case of Columbine, when the funerals were over, the service seemed to be just beginning. This owes in part to the fact that the massacre occurred square in the heart of America's evangelical community--Colorado is home to the Promise Keepers, James Dobson's Focus on the Family and vast and growing megachurches--and so from...
...sound (string arrangements accompany their trademark piano/bass/drum combination) and their identity. Sure, "punk rock for sissies" was a fun label for their often-silly post-kitsch nods to pissed-off ex-boyfriends and love-struck goofballs, but it hardly accommodates the stylish, lingering sway delivered here. The grandiose sweep of "Narcolepsy" leads into a series of cool, ruminative ballads echoing the mellow-sweet classical pop of Bacharach and Rundgren. Folds blends everything from the country-western atheistic lament "Mess" to the lovely, disaffected suite of "Hospital Song," "Army," "Your Redneck Past" and "Regrets." The subdued and heartfelt "Jane" transforms...
...Saturday doubleheader sweep of traveling partner Dartmouth, coupled with Friday's Brown-Yale split, made the Harvard baseball team Red Rolfe Division champions for the fourth straight season last weekend...
...That sweep mathematically eliminated the second-place Bears and ensured that Harvard would meet Lou Gehrig Division champions Princeton (24-17, 15-5) in a best-of-three series next weekend in Cambridge for the right to advance to the 64-team field of the NCAA Tournament...
Passarella went about his win with a different approach. After capturing the first set, 6-1, the fiery senior dropped the second, 7-5, and battled through the third to triumph in a tiebreaker and complete the sweep...