Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dominic Moore sparked the weekend with a dream first college strike. Taking the puck down the left wing, he undressed Dartmouth defender Carl Desjardins, sliding the puck ahead of him and lifting his stick up and over him. He then executed a triple deke on Almon to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
...council lost a progressive voice in Triantafillou, but her challengers were hardly right-wing. The lack of excitement or initiative for change was most poignantly illustrated by the fact that the voting was done by less than half of the city's registered voters. Few students showed up at the polling booths even for one of their own, at least if you take it from the lack of support for MIT student Erik Snowberg's candidacy. Snowberg finished 14th in the pool of 24 candidates, a sign that students still have little interest in Cambridge politics. However, Snowberg's campaign...
...Guatemalan Republican Front. Portillo, however, has an excellent shot at taking the December 26 election, because he's likely to absorb the 7 percent of voters who favored the candidate of a Marxist party fielded by ex-guerrillas. While Portillo's party, like the ruling party, is considered right-wing and is run by a former military dictator, Portillo himself is considered a centrist and wooed peasants with his campaign promise to "overthrow the oligarchy." Portillo cites British prime minister Tony Blair as his political role model, and says he wants to copy Blair's mix of social welfare programs...
...boards are big, half-painted set pieces--platforms akimbo, colliding, stairs aimed into nothing. I feel like I've walked into the closing scene of a tectonic morality play. Overhead, lights are just swinging into place over the balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung and one wing dangling. Someone jostles the stringed spear of a chitarrone...
...moronic, meddling, liberal whiners" --"childish nitpickers" --"Northeast left-wing ninnyhammers" --"narrow-minded pinheads" --"reactionary corporate propagandists...