Word: tear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ability to take classical and classic jazz pieces and add their own panazz stamp to them. In the song "Carmen Jones," they took a melody from Bizet's famous opera and gave it a little jazz flavor before really mixing it with pan rhythms and letting the tenor players tear it up. Tenor player Dane Gulston made his presence known from the start of the show and, at center stage for the remainder, he kept the intensity flowing and the tone of the show light as he alternatingly teased and supported the other band members. At one point, he challenged...
Harvard started the game on a tear, getting off eight shots in the first 10 minutes of the first period while Northeastern was not allowed a single look at the net. Ruggiero opened the scoring 5:46 into the game when she sent a wrist shot in from the point that went through the five-hole...
...form that placed a premium on technical problem solving, which was absorbing but not emotionally demanding. Best of all, an animated cartoon constituted a little world all its own--something that, unlike life, a man could utterly control. "If he didn't like an actor, he could just tear him up," an envious Alfred Hitchcock would later remark...
...viciousness of the military response hardened attitudes. "Damn this country!" muttered a student as he tied a wet towel around his face to ward off the tear gas. One distraught resident asked bitterly, "If the military is so brave, why don't they fight other countries--why do they attack the people?" And while the police and the army were booed and pelted with debris, the crowd cheered the arrival of the marines--who had fraternized with protesters who forced out Suharto in May--thus prompting wild visions of civil war. On Saturday, as thousands of protesters headed...
...Fifty years ago it was a sport to tear down the goalpost. They were fairly easy to tear down, being made of wood," Sigal said. "what a dangerous sport that...