Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early polls that show Gore running behind both George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole are not as worrisome to Democrats as are two deeper trends. First, the largely untested Texas Governor gets significantly higher leadership marks than Gore. Second, if the election were held today, Bush would not only thump Gore among Republicans and moderates but win about 1 out of 3 Democrats as well. Even Clinton has started sharing his misgivings about Gore's performance with political associates...
...moments jolt readers back into their reality, into an annoying self-consciousness. Consider this silly offering from an otherwise tantalizing "Atlantic Crossing:" "God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence." It's rather demeaning when authors--or anyone for that matter--thump their superior wisdom at the rest...
...most difficult role in the play, Mowth demonstrated a fine sense of timing with Ballas' complicated speeches and an ability to recover quickly even when one of Ballas' convoluted lines momentarily escaped him. In the supporting cast, Pete Wilson '99 was very entertaining doing double duty as Savant and Thump, two of the funniest characters in the play. Other highlights included the perfectly constructed voices of Prof. Lear (Michael Katherine Haynie '99), and Hana, played to her airy best by Kate Wiswell...
...heat of summer, amid the steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody...
People aren't supposed to be nice to each other on a basketball court. They're supposed to trash talk, stuff, thump their chests, maybe even throttle a coach or kick a photographer in the 'nads. But to stand still so an injured player from the other team can shoot a free basket and break a school record? That kind of nonsense has no place in a gymnasium...