Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great desire to turn it into a cultural statement. The siege at Waco has occasioned a worldwide festival of commentary -- and condescension -- on the subject of American primitivism. An Israeli TV interviewer asked me to explain to his audience why it is that America seems to throw up these weird religious cults at such regular intervals. I pointed out that Israel sports the Ateret Hacohanim, a group of believers so convinced of the imminence of the Messiah who will rebuild the Temple of Solomon that they spend their days studying the ancient laws of animal sacrifice. That way they...
...Waikiki Beach, two female dolphins poke their heads out of the water, waiting for a command. "O.K.," says Louis Herman, founder and director of the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, "now let's try a tandem creative." Two graduate students, positioned at opposite ends of the 50-ft. tank, throw full body and soul into communicating this message to the animals, Phoenix and Akeakamai. First the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention by holding a finger high in the air. Then they tap the index fingers of each hand together, forming the gesture that has been taught to mean...
...ranking Democrat, David Rubenstein, a former domestic adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He met Baker after the election through their mutual friend Robert Strauss, the wheeling-dealing Democrat who had just finished serving as Bush's Ambassador to Moscow. "Here I was with a man who helped throw me and other Democrats out of office 12 years ago," recalls Rubenstein of his first meeting with Baker in the White House. "And we had been brought together by a prominent Democrat fresh from duty in a Republican Administration. It's truly a tale of the way things work in today...
...play depicts a group of students, professors and spouses from an American university touring England to see various improving plays. But social politics throw the innocent academic holiday into turmoil. The head of the English department has decided to fire an assistant professor, but can't summon the courage to tell him. A student accuses another professor of sexual harrassment. Romantic and platonic tension abounds...
...jeans and line up shoulder to shoulder. Moving together to the beat, they cross one foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth on their heels and kick high. Egged on by hoots and hollers, a few throw in an extra turn or tip of the hat, but all do their darnedest to exude country cool...