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...That’s the reason I took him and those other type of people to the tournament,” Weiss continued. “It’s not for everyone because it’s a meat grinder, but it’s tough, and it opens some guys’ eyes...
...marimba bands were all performing their own pieces but the combination sounded somehow unified. In the middle of the entourage, young dancers, dressed in the tiny leather scraps of traditional dress whistled, clapped and stamped their feet. The seeds wrapped around their ankles rattled like beans in a coffee grinder...
...Stein Weissberger was 11 years old in 1943, when she landed the role of the Cat in the first performance of Brundibar, a children's opera about a gang of kids who take on a greedy organ-grinder. While not a glamorous production, it resonated deeply with its audience, the prisoners of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. "People loved to come and sing along," recalls Weissberger, who was in the camp for three years. "Especially the victory song...
...Detox, the four boys sound like they’ve put themselves into a pop-rock meat grinder and recorded the output. The chunky, distorted chords of opener “Hundred Million” set the tone for a record in which each track bleeds drearily into the next. “Drive” finally offers a change of pace at the album’s close—only to suffer through a drawn-out experiment in psychedelic guitar solos. Even if you were desperate for more of today’s clean-shaven punk boys...
...writes Taubman, a professor of political science at Amherst College, "Khrushchev gave violent, bloodcurdling speeches rousing 'the masses' to join in the witch-hunt. As Moscow party boss he personally approved the arrests of many of his own colleagues and their dispatch into what he later called the meat grinder." He had other sins on his head, many from a later time; he brutally crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for example...