Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leno would probably love the spinning song wheel, a towering and hokey trick that exercises an unhealthy fascination with Elvis. I've seen the damn thing three times now, and it's never been effective. It does provide a certain comic amusement for the first three minutes, but after that it bogs down the show as people have to be selected out of the audience to spin...
Raymond finished with five goals and one assist, including a rare first-quarter hat trick. Garvey, meanwhile, totaled four goals and two assists, with five of his six points coming in the first half...
...short-lived, as Harvard answered two minutes later, scoring twice in a 33-second span. First, Griffith tallied off a pass from Dodge. That was followed by a solo effort by Raymond (to complete his hat trick) which once again gave the Crimson a two goal edge...
...excesses and failures, gives rise to so many cautionary legends. George Gordon, Lord Byron incarnated one such fable: the poet as demon lover. He was dead at 36. Joe Orton, the English playwright who died in 1967, lived out another. He cruised danger as if it were a cute trick in a public gents', and was murdered at 34 -- for love! Nice work, guys. By your example you spread the word: art is supposed to show us how to live, and artists are supposed to show...
...springtime breeding ponds, the lovelorn toads frequently croak while crossing the country's roads. Shocked at this tragedy, Britain's Fauna and Flora Preservation Society has opened the country's first toad tunnel in Buckinghamshire. After a week of operation, officials were optimistic that the underpass would do the trick...