Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steel's thundering serves soundly defeated Pompan. With the Big Green player pounding out the northern New Hampshire equivalent of Titan II missiles, all Pompan could do was duck and swing. That strategy worked pretty well--if you don't count the seven aces--but he finally lost in the third set tiebreaker...
...faculty members in the University, The Crimson reported when the search for Harvard's 25th president was in full swing, Derek Bok was perhaps the most popular among his students. Bok's popularity, the newspaper observed, derived partially from his ability to teach, but "primarily form his stands on controversial issues." While at the Law School, as a professor and then dean, Bok had actively promoted affirmative action, taken a strong stand against the war in Cambodia, and flown to Washington to voice his opposition to G. Harold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court. He boasted the record...
...well worth waiting for. By the early 1970s he was ready to resume recording, and a succession of superb discs has followed: the Chopin Etudes, the late Beethoven sonatas, last year's Grammy Award-winning set of Bartok concertos. Last week, as Pollini completed a three-week swing through the U.S., including two stunning recitals in Carnegie Hall, he left behind little doubt that, at 38, he has moved into the forefront of the world's pianists...
...then you work to finish in the money. Slowly you build confidence, and you learn how to win. Now I'm working at staying a winner, even when I'm not at the top of my game. Each stage requires more of your mind, more of your swing. I was never content with the last level...
Ricker uses vintage Kansas City material sparingly enough to leave his audience hungry for more. Sublime recordings of "South" and "Moten Swing" by the Benny Moten Orchestra, descendant of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils and ancestor of the Count Basie band, play under the opening and closing credits; the only other period music accompanies the brief snippets of antique footage--Basie, Turner, Young, Parker--that pepper the body of the film. These are truly gratifying. "We were doing rock and roll before anybody heard of it." Turner grumbles. We have all heard this sort of talk before...