Word: broken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Staying in Boston for the summer, I have relearned how to enjoy myself. I have regained my curious nature and broken out of my hibernating shell. By winter, my exploratory energy will probably fade with the first snow fall, but before then I still have a few days to visit Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. And to eat lots of ice cream...
...shamanism. Olmec-style human figures typically have squarish facial features with full lips, a flat nose, pronounced jowls and slanting eyes reminiscent (at least to early travelers in the region) of African or Chinese peoples. Archaeologists have found household objects as well, but they tend to be broken. As a result, laments Joralemon, "we know relatively little about the common Olmec...
...surprisingly, Tigrett sees the situation differently. "The black community turned its back on the blues," he says. "Black intellectuals said, 'Blues, man, that's some rag-tag man singing on a front porch. That's poor self-image, singing in broken English.' And from 1963 to 1973 the black community abandoned the blues. The audience became white, and that was a tragedy." These are claims black and white blues lovers might question. But in an effort to show goodwill, Tigrett is trying to broaden the audience for the music he loves. HOB provides high-school seniors with college scholarships...
...continued, at least through the Games in Atlanta. After which those unearthly world records of Janet Evans, set way back in 1988 and '89, may have been broken. Or, as seems more likely, they will be someone else's albatross...
...personal, more spiritual approach to health and healing. As the 20th century draws to an end, there is growing disenchantment with one of its greatest achievements: modern, high-tech medicine. Western medicine is at its best in a crisis--battling acute infection, repairing the wounds of war, replacing a broken-down kidney or heart. But increasingly, what ails America and other prosperous societies are chronic illnesses, such as high blood pressure, backaches, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, depression and acute illnesses that become chronic, such as cancer and AIDS. In most of these, stress and life-style play a part...