Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days before the Olympics, and the tune keeps turning around in Gary Hall Jr.'s head. The song is called The Wheel, by his favorite band, the Grateful Dead, and it goes, "The wheel is turning, and you can't slow down." And then, "Won't you try just a little bit harder? Couldn't you try just a little bit more...
...through...The President will be talking to people in their homes through their TV sets. These average people are the true audience. The people in the hall are props. If this event is successful, it will show that Yeltsin the politician is guided by personal concerns that are in tune with those of most other Russians...
Would these latest promising treatments have been developed without animal research? Absolutely not, say AIDS researchers. Among other things, such studies help doctors determine what constitutes a safe dose of a drug before trying it out on people. The studies can also help physicians fine-tune treatments. After doctors determined that AZT could block the transmission of HIV to the fetus in some pregnant women, researchers wondered if they could make the therapy more effective. They decided to start by studying how a similar virus is transmitted from pregnant monkeys to their offspring. But animal-rights activists halted that experiment...
...also been known to frequent Ramones' concerts. But King makes his own music: he plays lead guitar for the all-writer band the Rock Bottom Remainders. The group covers a litany of rock favorites, dubbed "hard-listening music" by band member (and humor columnist) Dave Barry. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walking, fellow Remainder (and novelist) Amy Tan dons a tight leather jumpsuit and whips other band members. Says Barry: "We try to be moderately entertaining, so people don't know...
That decade was one of firsts; the 1920s was a decade of bests, as Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic...