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Word: aimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Down on the Ground” and “A Trip Out.” Album closer “We Close Our Eyes,” a reprise of “All in It,” begins with a few minutes of aimless noise until a simple, minor organ melody and booming, echoing voices bring the album to a dramatic close. This hopeful conclusion to “Do You Like Rock Music?” can be seen as an allegory for the rock renaissance that many American music lovers still eagerly await. There...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: British Sea Power | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Born in 1919 to Eurasian parents - his father was a wealthy Muslim-English lawyer, his mother German-Scottish-Sinhalese - Bawa was, yes, raised with that proverbial silver spoon. Cambridge-educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord of the Jungle | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...Here’s what he should have said: “Harvard today is good but it is not great. Her students are ambitious, but they are aimless. Subject to substandard undergraduate education, her students are incentivized to maximize their GPAs. Her professors are not incentivized to teach...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: The Virtue We Forgot | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...Maticevski is the most original. He showcases several different styles, including puffy, soft gowns sculpted like a butterfly’s wings to create ethereal silhouettes in bright lemon and peach. Like BCBG, the clothes are hardly street-wear material, but Maticevski elevates his line to sculpture instead of aimless fabric layering. He next juxtaposes that style with petite black nightwear—mini dresses, fitted jackets, complicated necklines, and lots of silver metallic long gowns and accessories. Fear not, fashion followers. Maticevski more than satiates our appetite for edgy, contemporary, artsy fashion.9:40 p.m.As our fashion weekend comes...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Hitting The Runway | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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