Word: ain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carville agreed, saying, "We live in a culture where everyone makes fun of politicians. But it ain't as easy as it looks. When things go right, we need give them a little credit...
...anthem Love Train--a call to unity that rings hollow with Democrats still divided about the nomination. But there's hope. At the New Hampshire "town hall" forum with Gore and Bill Bradley last week, it was obvious what song captures Gore's new mood: the old Motown hit Ain't Too Proud...
...Britain was having young men "who grew up in all this violence" preach the gospel of peace to Adams and the wannabe gangsters of Belfast, who were planning a tribute to the violent rapper Tupac Shakur (gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996) until the homies told them that ain't cool. One of their ex-teammates is doing hard time for a drive-by shooting. "Our brief engagement," Adams later wrote to Hayes, "livened up an otherwise dreary set of meetings." Namely, the peace talks...
...comes The Melody at Night, with You (ECM), a superlative album that at first may look like a straightforward melding of Jarrett's predilections for solo works and standards: unaccompanied versions of such old favorites as Someone to Watch Over Me and I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good). But you don't have to listen very long to realize that, once again, he's up to something completely different. Gone are the swirling right-hand cascades and rocking gospel vamps, the layered harmonies and high-energy codas; in their place is a style of quiet, unvirtuosic simplicity...
...ain't gonna be summer camp. PT (physical training) will still nearly kill me, and the verbal abuse just might finish the job. Smoking, by the way, is not allowed. (That's a new one for Army life, but good - getting the Camel off my back is part of what I volunteered for.) Nine weeks from now I'll be what John Candy signed up to be - a lean, mean, fighting machine - unless they've dropped that part of it too, along with the free socks. Some things never change, though: I leave the home front tear-stained, and with...