Word: swingingly
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...then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that she had experienced an orgasm with each swing...
...four-wheel drive and tons of torque and booster-rocket horsepower, today's sports-utility vehicle would have come in handy at the Battle of the Bulge. On the road its driver faces no obstacle more menacing than a pothole, but he knows that if he wants, he can swing off the highway and climb a sand dune, ford a raging river, grind deep into a trackless wilderness. Of course, he never does. He has to drive the kids to soccer practice. But the unused capacity hums beneath the pedals at his feet and feeds the fantasy. Watch him roar...
Granted, spending the last weekend of reading period playing a pair of road games against combined 5-16 opponents sounds like time better spent cramming for that Justice final, but with one unexpected league loss already in the books, Harvard must bounce back on this two-game swing...
...grooves. Thanks are due to irresistible rhythm sections, some compelling young soloists, and Roberts' compositional wit as he muscles his group through changes in rhythm and genre. This is a heady album, but it doesn't let braininess get in the way of guttier values like pungency and swing. The rest of the millennium's music should be so winningly calibrated...
DIED. STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, 89, exuberant jazz violinist; in Paris. Grappelli started out as a pianist for silent films but switched to strings for the swing standards he loved. America had Ellington, but Europe got the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the 1930s--the chamber group-cum-jazz ensemble that featured Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. The quintet broke up during World War II, but Grappelli played on--recording more than 100 albums...