Word: blur
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...told you in countless verbal settings, without the rational distance that writing grants, I’ll tell you again: Blur is ten times the band that Oasis is. You rank among Brit-philes of the highest order, but your ability to discern the better band between these two leads to doubt about the accuracy of your critical taste...
Oasis hit stateside with one wildly popular pop hit, “Wonderwall,” which will be a part of ’90s nostalgia forever. On their side, Blur had the anthem “Song 2,” which forever will be remembered for its “woohoo!” chorus, an arena standard with an underlying irony: the song is notoriously a British parody of the times’ ubiquitous American grunge...
...good,’ ‘this is bad,’” Miller told an audience of a dozen or so students and community members in the basement of the Carpenter Center Saturday morning after the performance. “It’s a blur...
...proposed exemptions: defense spending, R&D costs and contributions to the E.U. budget. The proposals drew fire. "Adding a long list of exemptions would blur the picture," says an Estonian diplomat. "Inflation, investment and credit ratings are all at stake." Juncker even warned the pact could be left as is, which would rile France and Germany. Next week, he'll bring ministers together again to try to find a compromise. But few expect a solution until E.U. leaders meet in Brussels later this month - if then. BA Gets A New Pilot Talk about getting an upgrade. Willie Walsh, former boss...
...what millions of Australians do every day." She begins her book with a dig at high-profile media colleagues who are, she says, too often more preoccupied with being players in events than with faithfully describing them. "I'm more intent on vivifying the flash of color and the blur of movement down below," she writes. There should be more...