Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opening Friday's show with a sizzling "Feel Like a Stranger," immediately demonstrated why the band, after 28 years on the road, still sells out arenas wherever they go. A few songs later, an excellent rendition of the seldom-played "Stagger Lee" whipped the crowd into a (mellow) frenzy...
...Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either Reagan's or Bush...
...Cousin Sarah's cork leg, then ramifies: she had a great-uncle whose daughter ran off with a trombone player, who had a half-sister who . . . T.R. Pearson's skilled and artful variant moves in great, loopy spirals of anecdote, so that every now and then the apparently aimless stagger of narration swirls briefly to within sight of the original, stated objective. In the case of CRY ME A RIVER (Henry Holt; $22), this is the murder of a cop in a Southern town, told bemusedly by one of his colleagues. This sixth novel by the author of A Short...
...fact, the losses already suffered by Harvard's endowment through gross mismanagement and incompetence are so monumental that they stagger the imagination. Try to imagine what a small fraction of assets so lost could have done for annual University budgets in terms of scholarships, salaries, new professorships, research projects...
...sake of drugs, money and kicks. In the U.S. violence has shifted from premeditaion to simple brutality: one in which the randomness of it all makes everyone a possible victim and a possible assailant. Sit in the Tasty in the wee hours of the morning, and watch assembled oddballs stagger in, argue and stumble out. Their mere presence, as drugged or drunk uncertainties, conjures up the worst fears of anger, assault and guns...