Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Power Play: B-. Nothing seems to work--and Tomassoni has tried just about everything. Harvard hasn't even sniffed the excellence of last year's wonder-unit; its 17.5 percent success rate is barely half that of its predecessor, and given the amount of skilled talent still present to fill the slots on the five-on-four, that fact is most irksome...
...Crimson has always passed the puck a lot on the power play, perhaps more than it should; that seems to be another flaw of this year's unit, although not particularly any more than usual. And Harvard still manages to find a way to light the lamp an average of once a night on the man-advantage...but somehow, we expect more. Here, more than anywhere, there are gaping holes to fill...
...Jimmy Lyons is startling. These musicians are thinking so fast! On a recording such as the 1966 album Conquistador (airing on WHRB around 11:00 p.m.), the group produces music as a seamless whole. It is for this reason that Taylor chose to name his groups "The Cecil Taylor Unit," which he takes to mean, "a community of men feeding each other, relating to each other, and speaking to each other in musical, architectural sounds which have been passed on to them." The music on an album like Conquistador is not a partnership of equals, however, as Taylor clearly dominates...
...said, to keep it "half-starved and destitute." That was no exaggeration. Thousands of troops who were pulled back from the far reaches of the Soviet empire are living in barracks and with relatives in Russia because there is no housing for them. Large-unit field exercises have not been held since 1992. Russian pilots fly only an hour or two a month, while U.S. flyers spend 20 hours a month in the air to hone their fighting edge...
...G.I.G.N. unit moved. Approaching the plane from the rear and sides so they could not be seen, three groups of commandos in black ski masks and combat fatigues advanced atop three mobile loading ramps. The first unit, led by Favier, headed for the forward right door, opened its lock and stormed inside, guns blazing. Holed up in the cockpit, the hijackers met them with what Favier later described as "a wall of gunfire" through the door. "It was hell in there...