Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fieger thought his experience with Kevorkian had prepared him to argue the case better than the actual petitioner...
...acoustic drums, but most of the time they use synthesized sounds percussively, a technique that makes their songs quite arresting. The 12 purely instrumental tracks on Autoditacker often revolve around a repeating rhythm loop that varies as the composition demands. On only a couple of tracks is there an actual melody line floating above the composition. Most often, melody is a product of the varying pitches of the simultaneous drum loops, and forms gradually as parts fall into place. The melody line is very punctuated and, in this sense, the compositions are very much like percussion music...
...have been asking women two questions. My first question was "What is your greatest fear in life?" Uniformity characterized the responses. (Yes, these are actual responses from Cliffies; I did not fabricate them.) "Watching my husband walk out on me." "Losing my lover." "Getting a divorce...
...Actual residents of the area may have a different perspective, but as far as much of the rest of the country is concerned, Chapel Hill was too busy truckin' along to grab the brass ring. Scene pioneers Superchunk might shift 30,000 units now instead of 3,000, but in return they have become small fish in a pond where A&R sharks actually say things like "shifting major units."(Yes, Kurt Cobain wrote a song about this. Move along...
...others was their injunction that the causes of disease should no longer be attributed to the influence of supernatural forces. Henceforth, the origins of illness were to be sought in observable natural factors that influence the functions of the body. Attempts were made to relate specific symptoms to actual internal or environmental causes, rather than to the intervention of displeased and vengeful gods. This was a departure for physicians accustomed to seeking cures by appealing to the divinities with prayer and sacrifice...