Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair of rookies emerged from the ranks to steal the thunder from ECAC powerhouses Northeastern and UNH. Kiirsten Suurkask, the 1998 ECAC Rookie of the Year, and Angie Francisco, who broke Shewchuck's single-season scoring record, anchored a Harvard line that spilled over with talent...
...result, Legacy sounds artificially happy and at times, difficult to listen to. The band Tonic sounds cheerful in singing "I'm just second-hand news." As the Irish band, The Corrs, rework the track "Dreams," they too, seem to ignore the tortured meaning of the lyrics and delightedly croon, "Thunder only happens when it's raining/Players only love you when they're playing." The Corrs, however, do incorporate the hall-mark of 1990's music. They sing with a dance beat--and prove that not even music mixers consider Fleetwood Mac (like Celine Dion or songs from the Evita soundtrack...
...when the first rumblings of Gorbachev's thunder disturbed the moldy Soviet silence, the holy fools on the street--the people who always gather at flea markets and around churches--predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was "foretold in the Bible," that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead. Everyone had searched for signs in previous leaders as well, but Lenin's speech defect, Stalin's mustache, Brezhnev's eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark...
...marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending South Korean-made stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases the Customs Service has uncovered are the tip of the iceberg. "There are definitely other companies...
...President in the highest regard, but not the man [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16]. President Clinton and his cohort need to come clean and stop blaming everyone else for their troubles. I commend independent counsel Kenneth Starr for his perseverance in the face of denial. Starr didn't bring the thunder down from the heavens onto the Clintons; they did it themselves. I am ashamed that Clinton is still in office. TARYN SANFORD Sheffield...