Word: brained
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days, is it a critic's brain that goes soft, or just the movies he's paid to see? At this time of year, all films start blending into one: something about a comic book superhero with arrested-development issues who saves the world while making pee-pee jokes. Produced by Judd Apatow...
...fact, we gain knowledge of whatever it was we were supposed to do, what the purpose of life is. The other side is so beautiful. Look, you hear about people who have "near-death experiences," and doctors will tell you it's because something happened to their brain. That's a bunch of bullshit. The fact is, the Other Side exists. It's a paradise. God is there. There's no suffering, no mortgage payments, no tears, no tyranny. It's a place of harmony...
...lighten up, but they do go on vacation, and an extended jaunt to Mexico seems to have offered Oberst a glimpse of a world without doom. The meandering road anthems (Moab) and beach tunes (Sausalito) capture the mischief and freedom of travel without going all Margaritaville. So your brain is welcome on this journey...
...cannot change the cards you are dealt," he said, "just how you play the hand." With his child's smile and nimble brain and breathtakingly simple instructions tumbling out one after another, Pausch made the infernally complex machine that is modern life look as if anyone could put it together with the right tools and the right crib sheet. Come on, he seemed to say, you can do this; I have the secrets, and I'm giving them to you--for free...
...campaigned on a laundry list of specific issues that all polled well - clean air, better schools and more health care, to name a few - but failed to inspire. George W. Bush, by contrast, campaigned on a story fully intended to appeal as much to the heart as the brain. In the Republican tale, Bush was a strong leader ready to take on a dangerous world, while Kerry was a "flip-flopper" who held his finger to the wind. Or as Carville crudely put it, Bush effectively told the country, "I'm going to protect you from terrorists in Tehran...