Word: washed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group then reached back to its first album Junta, for "You enjoy Myself," the chorus to which is the often debate subject among "phans." ("What's Uffitze? Drive me to Firenze" or "Wash you Feets-e, drive me to Firenze" --the band won't say). Friday's version was a gem with "Frankenstein" sandwiched into the jam section. As the final section of the piece ended, (ana capella vocal improvisation), Anastasio cut into the bluesy, shuffle riff of "Julius," only the third pieces of the night from Hoist. The album version is one of Phish's best pieces of studio...
Zhirinovsky had simple -- but often implausible -- answers for every challenging question. His publicized meeting with an Austrian Nazi, he said, was a "setup." His claim that Russian troops would someday wash their boots in the Indian Ocean meant only that chaos in Muslim countries would require Russian peacekeeping within 20 years. He glibly promised that within months of taking office, he would end homelessness, unemployment and crime...
...decisions, but the embattled commissioner won a supreme court injunction preventing the action. Next, Congress hit on the strategy of a constitutional amendment. V.C. Shukla, Rao's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, argued that the reason was merely that "we want to strengthen democratic norms." But that did not wash. Said Upendra Baxi, a constitutional expert: "This is an attempt to emasculate the institution whose mission is to hold free and fair elections." Voters seemed to agree. A Times of India poll last week revealed that 62% of respondents believed Congress's motive was to "clip Seshan's wings." More than...
...French deals with an incident in 1798, and Tenants begins with uprisings in the 1860s; the foreknowledge of history merely colors these works with an agreeable wash of irony. The End of the Hunt seems more tragic because the political failures it describes lead directly to the recent bloody decades, when the balladmakers have given up but the bombers are still at work...
...first acting role, in a Sevenoaks production of Cry, the Beloved Country, was, typically, a cue for school rebellion."I was playing a little black boy. I had to cover myself in black makeup, and what gave me the greatest pleasure was that I could never wash all of it off. Every night it sullied the sheets. For once I could be a legally disruptive influence." Soon after, he made his fleeting film debut, as a young vandal in Sunday, Bloody Sunday...