Word: bearer
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...charts and pushing the boundaries of their sound even at the height of their popularity. Casual radio listeners are hooked by the catchy singles; more are captivated by their engaging lyrical content and constant musical experimentation; and college students everywhere find a new standard-bearer...
...these things could be corrected if we turned it over to the people, and one of those people is me. And I point my finger at myself: when you see me, I'll be the man in black, one of those responsible. And that kind of became my flag bearer, that song. And I've worn that mantle ever since...
...best restaurant in town, a cool dive bar, an obscure, postmodern Croatian novel. As with any secret, though, there is immense desire to spill it, hence the high price of a secret. Once, if, you decide to share, you want to be claimed as the true bearer of the earth-shattering insight. And nothing is worse than sharing a secret that everyone already knows...
Shido Nakamura is the proud bearer of a long-lost brand of cool. It's a cool recovered from the mists of history, a pre-TV cool, a primordial cool from an age before cool became bankable. Born and bred in the rarefied world of classical Kabuki?a 400-year-old Japanese theatrical form originated by troupes of itinerant artists and prostitutes?the 30-year-old actor has managed over the past year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf?...
...Died. Deng Liujin, 91, Chinese communist and one of the few women who completed the Long March; in Beijing. Deng stayed close to the Party after serving as a stretcher-bearer during the communist rebels' 1930s escape from Nationalist forces. Her husband, Zeng Shan, served as Minister of Internal Affairs in 1960, and their son, Zeng Qinghong, is currently China's Vice President...