Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lets me mix the two worlds," says Monica B. Shah '99. "I may not be the best problem set solver and not the best paper writer, but I can do both. Sociopolitics and science are interrelated because you can't look at the modern medical system without a scientific background, but you [also] need an understanding of social issues...
...that shaped the events in DeKalb highlight the complicated nature of this issue. In communities attempting to address particular problems in ways that make sense for their particular communities, the line between church and state may become blurred. When the dust settles and the motivational sermons fade into the background, our courts and our country will have to decide what role religion can play in communities' attempts to heal themselves...
...prominence has been given by Western journalists, particularly democracy and human-rights activists, who believe we should be completely like them. I have tried to explain we have a different historical background and different social values. These different values have made for fast growth. The collapse has come about because of a lack of systems, especially "the rule of law." If it is Asian values that brought about this disaster, how come Hong Kong and Singapore have not been affected...
...conclusion, though, comes as a substantial let-down. After much applause for the dancer's performance to the pseudo-classical Irish music rhythms, the music begins pounding again, but this time to a fantastically energetic rock background. Immediately, the performers begin swirling and kicking across the stage again, until everything builds up to....nothing. The music fades away with disturbing abruptness, and the curtain falls as the dancers are still moving. Had everyone only waited until the song ended on one clear note, the resounding energy would have undoubtedly brought everyone in the theater to cheering out loud all over...
...ideal realm. Her shallow pop seemed to float without foundation in her previous albums. Every time she tried to be "innovative" or "groundbreaking," it all turned into another exercise in pleasing the Top 40 crowd. The songs on Ray of Light are built around producer William Orbit's spectacular backgrounds: synthesizers illuminate the music with pseudo-stars, comets, flowing rivers, and gurgling heavenly blips. "Sky Fits Heaven," for instance, would be a dismally boring song without the lightly pulsating background that perfectly matches the song's lyrics...