Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage...
...menorahs rule is an extension of the fire prevention, no-candles policy applied to all Harvard housing. Yet, if you turn on a television or open up a family magazine in December, the newscasts and articles aren't warning people about the dangers of menorahs. Instead they are warning people about the dangers of Christmas trees and lights--how they so often are the cause of disastrous fires. Even the e-mail to first-years stated that Christmas trees dry out very quickly and create a major fire hazard to all residents of a building. So, why does the College...
Having already won more games this early in the season than they did all last year, the Skating Dutchmen have really begun to turn their program around...
...will paint a picture of a bored four-year-old running around, banging pots on a rainy day. That perception hardly does justice to the performance. Sure, it doesn't take a genius to enjoy the show. It takes, rather, a genius--or in this case two geniuses--to turn the simplicity of sound and dance into a spectacular evening of entertainment. In 1991, creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas realized the simple joy that a four-year-old can take in banging pots, and brought that happiness to a universal audience. Everyone loves rhythm and motion, though they...
...newspapers to matchboxes to Zippos, the percussionists take the show to new levels of creativity. A rustled trash bag morphs into an extraordinary orchestra of sound. A routine sweeping becomes a rhythmic blast. Set in a hubcap-adorned industrial-metallic garage, the three female and five male cast members turn the beat-heavy sound into something more than just a tribute to the powers of rhythm...