Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lights finally went down, and the Allman Brothers began with "Sailing Across the Devil's Sea," a tune from their new album "Enlightened Rogues." This was followed by solid deliveries of a pair of their earlier works, "Statesboro Blues" and "Blue Sky." This was the kind of guitar work I had come...
...television ratings were a triumph, if you listened to the promoters. Brazil vs. America drew 32 million viewers on the Fourth of July, with parades and picnics as the game's principal competition. Not bad. That's as many people as tune in for the average American Football Conference match on a November Sunday. Look at it a different way, and the ratings were a disaster: the biggest game in U.S. soccer history drew only as many viewers as a yawner between the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots on a day when raking leaves is usually the alternative...
...lose some of its texture and color, but the live setting allows the jam at the end of the song to flourish into a true rocker. Anastasio seized the opportunity and delivered a blistering but passionate solo. Closing out the second set with the crowd-pleaser "Golgi Apparatus," a tune Anastasio wrote in eight grade, Phish had the throngs of prep school kids singing along to the chorus "I saw you with a ticket stub in your hand...
...Cambridge, Kaysen typically spends mornings working at her electric typewriter, with Miss Bliss, her tabby, curled up nearby. She sporadically sees a psychologist she refers to as "my tune-up woman." Money is no longer a problem; the rights to the book have already been optioned to Hollywood. Still, literary success doesn't bring everything. Kaysen was divorced in her 20s, and she confides, "The best-seller list doesn't get you a date, so don't hope...
...consecutive season in the basement of the National League East. The Celtics missed the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade--and didn't even get a good lottery number. And the Islanders looked thoroughly unimpressive in the playoffs. But good sports fans don't just tune out once their teams have been knocked from contention. Instead, they pick the team they like best and root from there. And for New Yorkers and their seven major professional sports franchises, the favored team come playoff time is very often the team playing the bad guys...