Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wonderfully under-orchestrated, "I Will Take You Home" is a sentimental song for voice and piano sung by Brent to his sleepy young daughter. Violins and music boxes provide the soothing musical texture which unites the piece and sets it apart from the rest of the album...
...fact that "I Will Take You Home" is a song that the Dead couldn't have written 20 years ago is exactly what sets it apart as something truly special. For music fans who have spent the summer listening to some of the other dinosaurs of rock and roll refusing to die before they get old, watching the Dead accept and acknowledge their age with grace and dignity through compositions like this one is a pleasure...
...distinct stages lasting a minute and five seconds, the quaking stunned the populace out of sleep into an incomprehensible terror of showering plaster, scattering bric-a-brac, breaking dishes, shifting furniture, toppling walls and collapsing roofs. Waterfront houses lurched and fell apart, hotels hopped off their foundations. In the working-class district south of Market Street, tenements turned into tangled splinters, and four hotels capsized and collapsed, trapping scores. An added blast rattled the area, as the city gas plant blew up. Thousands of chimneys plunged through roofs. Many residents drowned, trapped, in deluges from ruptured water mains. An elaborate...
Around Labor Day, however, the consensus that Darman had put together began to fall apart. "Everything was going along swimmingly," explains an Administration official, "until the drug plan came out of nowhere, and then capital gains became partisan instead of the easy way out." The battle against drugs meant new spending, and Democrats began attacking a capital- gains cut as a Republican tax goody for the rich and famous...
...size of an earthquake is determined partly by the length of the fault segment that slips. In addition, large earthquakes tend to be spaced further apart than small ones, since it takes a much longer time to accumulate sufficient stress. While scientists cannot say exactly where or when the next Big One will hit, they are not without hunches. Southern California, which has not had a Big One since 1857, is every seismologist's first...