Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something more presidential, something of enduring and classic value. It was a job, they realized, for the Dead White Men and, inclusively speaking, Dead Ladies too. No problem. Hillary could contact them through her medium and persuade Mahatma Gandhi to dig up their voice-mail numbers. Eleanor Roosevelt would brief them on the issues--if by late August any issues remained...
...countrified garage rocker Smile sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo (Pearl Jam worked with Young on his 1995 album, Mirror Ball); it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. Let's hope this is just a brief detour and that the next time out, Pearl Jam will find its way back to the gutsy inventiveness that deservedly made it the most popular band of the early '90s. --C.J.F...
...first brief visit home that he was allowed from Kessler last September was the weekend of his birthday. "It was my first time home since before Memorial Day. And I came up the driveway, and at first I was thrilled to see the house and everything the way it was, and then I just broke down because you realize how much everything has changed and how you are going to be different in the house and how everyone is going to have to make so many changes to accommodate this new life...
MOSCOW: Interrupting his efforts to end the 20-month old civil war in Chechnya, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed returned to Moscow on Monday to brief Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress. Although the Lebed negotiated cease-fire remains tenuous but intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While...
...film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. "Hopefully," says Farley, "this is just a brief detour and the next time out, Pearl Jam will find its way back to the gutsy inventiveness that deservedly made it the most popular band of the early...