Word: tune
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team stormed through its competition in the 1996-97 season, finishing with an 11-1 record overall, including 5-1 in the Ivy League. Most of the season appeared to be a mere tune-up for the fencers, as the first weekend brought romps over MIT, Brown, Tufts and Boston University, with no team even able to come within 10 points of Harvard...
...years," Fogerty says. "That will give you a handle on why I was so angry." He didn't record again for almost 10 years, and when he did, on 1985's smashing Centerfield (Warner Bros.), he got in some licks at his adversary in a hard-driving tune called Zanz Kan't Danz, with a chorus that warned: "Zanz can't dance/ But he'll steal your money/ Watch him or he'll rob you blind...
...mark in personal frustrations and creative stagnation. Fogerty's first marriage broke up in 1987. He heard music in his head but couldn't reproduce it to his own satisfaction. As he worked on Blue Moon Swamp's eerie A Hundred and Ten in the Shade, he thought the tune needed the insinuating underpinning of a bottleneck guitar. Instead of hiring a player, Fogerty commenced to teach himself the technique and, after a year, "I got fairly proficient. [Then] it became obvious that it was the wrong sound. It didn't match what was in my head. I finally realized...
...wife, Julie, now 37, a stepdaughter and two young sons, a "reconnection to the man who wrote those songs" for Creedence that for years he refused to sing, and a new album that can stand with the best he's ever done. He plays the Dobro on a tune for Julie--Joy of My Life, "the only love song I've ever written" and a symbol of his revival. "I'd lost the ability to create," he says. "I've found it again. I call it the miracle...
...Bull") Gravano shouldn't benefit from his work with author Peter Maas on a book about life in the Mob. Publisher HarperCollins says he was not paid, but one victim's daughter thinks that's bull. Last week Laura Garofalo sued Gravano for wrongful-death damages to the tune of $50 million...