Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case), which has been a hallmark of all Board meetings during at least the four years I have served, would be, I am confident, most distressing to all of us. In dealing with the press, a simple "No Comment" followed by a polite "Goodbye" will usually do the trick...
Chiarelli is third on the team in goals-scored with five. He is on pace for a 15-goal season. Not bad for a player who scored only 13 goals in his first three years at Harvard. Against Princeton three weeks ago, Chiarelli recorded his first collegiate hat trick...
...trick for Barber is to blend the changing cast and the varied talents into a unified voice. He drills them on breathing and on the peculiarities of sung pronunciation. At verse 9 of Psalm 37, he interjects, "This is my favorite: 'For evildoers shall be cut off. ' With a big t before the 'off.' Crisp as a knife." He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance...
...hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
...nine years of his life there. His real name was Ehrich Weiss, and he was the son of Appleton's first Reform rabbi, a Hungarian immigrant. Everyone in Appleton has heard about young Ehrich Weiss and how the night clerk at the Waverly Hotel taught him his first rope trick. Gus Zuehlke, today the chairman of Valley Bancorporation, remembers listening to his father spin tales about young Ehrich's daring escapes from the Fox River, which meanders its way right through the heart of town. "My father used to help him," asserts Zuehlke, and who's to say whether...