Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HUCTW, which issued its own statement the next week, was a little more blunt in taking on the moral repurcussions of Harvard's "errors...
Identifying a character and a country Yankee Doodle Dandy style is an old, but difficult, device. Doyle may as well have invented it, however, given his skill in putting it to work. In a style both brawling and lyrical, blunt and acute, he sets his hero adrift on a swirling current of love and politics. By age 14, Henry is fighting in the streets with martyrs of the Easter Rising, lashing out against the English enemy with an anarchic, adolescent recklessness that barely knows what it's fighting for or why. Instead of self-awareness, Henry has guts; instead...
...memory experts, however, are skeptical about ginkgo and other brain boosters. "Most of these products have not been investigated to any significant extent that would warrant the claims that are being made,'' says Dr. Ronald Petersen, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Other geriatricians are more blunt. All the hoopla, they say, is merely a case of the placebo effect run amuck: people want their memories to get better, so they do. Give them a sugar pill, and they probably wouldn't know the difference...
...trip-hop, and a dues-paying member of the musical avant-garde. In his mesmerizing new album he collaborates with hip-hoppers DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill) and Grease. They help bring his almost perversely abstract compositions back down to the street, grounding them with raw raps and blunt beats. Tricky remains endearingly elusive, delivering almost all his vocals sotto voce, winding his way through the shadows of his songs...
...Larry had a reputation for being very blunt, for always telling you what he thought. If he thinks something's stupid, he'll tell you," says Mankiw, who served as Summers' assistant while Mankiw was a graduate student...