Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contributes to the image that he doesn't have the brain," Berke said...
...energy to be clever. Also, I'd just stopped drinking coffee." He laughs. "So the album ended up being about how you play melody without cleverness. It's almost as though I was detoxing from standard chordal patterns. I didn't want any jazz harmonies that came from the brain instead of the heart...
...funny jokes; there are some attractive actors; it has a beginning, middle and end. It's just that to watch it is a complete forfeiture of experience. There's nothing there, just fluff, and you could have thought of better fluff. Certainly not every entertainment experience needs to be brain-bending, and of course, good fluff has its own relaxing virtues. But if that's what you're in the mood for, watch TV. I hear "Friends" is a popular show...
...part of both the brain trust and the sounding board, working with others in my profession," Bursztajn says. "[Bradley] has reinvigorated health care as an issue...
...high school biology textbook offered an illustration: if an electrode is attached to the pleasure center of a rat's brain and the rat is given access to a lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...