Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shoddy hotel rooms can also blemish an otherwise picture perfect vacation...
...seniors on the team travel to the Potter Cup competition at Princeton for the last time, they see something they never have before--a blemish on their record. No. 2 Harvard (8-1, 6-0 Ivy) lost 6-3 to No. 1 Trinity, ending an 89-game winning streak...
...Crimson, however, refused to give up the fight, unwilling to blemish a thus-far perfect record...
After this brief vacation, the implication seems to be, bonded Harvard and Yale students return to our important business while the rest of our compatriots continue to languish in their frivolous lives. Certainly snobbery of this sort is a blemish, like flatulence or a stain on a shirt, that plagues many of us from time to time. But as with those unpleasantries, it really is nicer for everyone if we don't flaunt it in public. --Aron R. Fischer...
Love is a great listen. The occasional slips into schmaltz blemish parts of it, but Buttercup's pop sensibility keeps the tunes fresh and energetic and Obetz gives the band a dimension that other alternapop outfits don't have. The slight twang on "Deal With the Devil" gives a coyness to the tune's moodiness, elevating an otherwise trite pop tune to something far more musical. This seems to be the name of the game for Buttercup: reconfiguring pop cliches in extremely inventive ways. Even their love songs are tinged with irony, infusing pop fantasy with real world bitterness. Their...