Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Korsakov to Ellington's Mussorgsky. Ellington's original libretto was recast by George C. Wolfe, the tunes were fitted with new words by George David Weiss, and the score was reworked by Conductor (and sometime Ellington collaborator) Maurice Peress under the supervision of the composer's son Mercer. The trick was to minimize the book's implausibilities while making the most of the score's seductive melodies...
...take a stand. But only if they incorporate issues such as the environment, tax reform, economic security, and gun control into a coherent vision can they hope to recapture the affections of the voters. Trying to form a coalition of special-interest groups can no longer do the trick. Several local and state Democratic candidates have run recently with great success emphasizing workfare programs and the clean-up of hazardous-wastes. The victories of Mark Green and Bella Abzug in New York, John Lewis in Georgia, and Harriet Woods in Missouri proves that there is still an audience out there...
...expected him to score two goals maybe," an understandably happy Harvard Coach Jape Shattuck said after Catliff's stunning hat-trick-plus-one performance. "But not four...
John Catliff--just returned from an injury-induced year's absence from the collegiate scene--powered Harvard to a stunning 4-1 victory over Columbia at Ohiri Field with a hat-trick-plus-one performance Saturday...
...bike-borne acrobatics. "That was a Miami hop, followed by a pedal picker and a helicopter," explains Paul Perez, 16, after a display that bends the laws of physics. Marco Quezada, 16, tells the Rads' story: "We had nothing much to do until we saw a guy with a trick bike who did a few things, simple stuff, but we were real impressed. So we all started going out to get bikes of our own. That was two years ago, and now I suppose we have maybe 100 tricks between...