Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest British import, replete with echoes of music from blues and swamp to rock and alternative. They are the winners of Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
...latest British import, replete with echoes of music from blues and swamp to rock and alternative. They are the winners of Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
...what quality club music is when the drinking age is so high that college students can't go clubbing on a regular basis and when places like Boston still have 2 a.m club closings. And it seems record companies trying to bring dance music to the States can't avoid thinking in terms of rock music and keep trying to create stars instead of putting more emphasis on individual songs. Whatever happened to the single, that ephemeral nugget of sound? Billboard now allows "singles" to hit the charts even when record companies don't release them for sale, purely based...
Since everything else had gone as expected, I figured that our classmate would give the usual response, that these marvelous friends are themselves products of the Admissions Office. But he surprised me. "Actually," he told us, "If there's one reason that I would avoid giving to the Senior Gift myself, it would be because of the students here. I think they're really smart and interesting and talented, and that's terrific, and I've made some great friends, but I've found that lots of them are so busy pursuing their own success that they never have time...
...also notice how many people around you are walking so fast that they might as well be running, how many people avoid making eye contact with you, how many people brush by you as if you weren't there. All of this takes place in less than 15 minutes, the same amount of time that you would have spent checking your e-mail again and again while sequestering yourself in your room or in the Model Ad Board office. The difference is that time goes by much faster when you worry it away...