Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continue to inject their trademark hopelessness on such pieces as "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk." "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More," their David Morales-produced first single, brilliantly revisits one of their favorite themes, broken communication. It's a neatly ironic combination: life is bittersweet, perhaps you should dance. The slower tunes don't quite work. "The Only One" is overly melancholy, while the resurfacing of Kylie Minogue (on "In Denial") won't do her career any favors. Still, the album loves the nightlife...
...infringing on people's recreational fun for over 300 years. Punishing anything from idleness to colorful clothing to the breaking of Sabbath codes, these laws were also known as the bloody laws or the black and blue laws, which referred to the punishments doled out when the laws were broken...
...precipitously at nearly the speed of sound for 16,000 feet, but then climbed about a mile - and possibly began breaking up in midair - before falling into the ocean. That might suggest a last-ditch attempt by the crew to gain control of the stricken craft, which could have broken up under structural stress if the pilot had attempted to pull too quickly out of a 700-mph dive. But the cause of that initial dive - like everything else associated with Flight 990's final moments - remains in the province of speculation, which can't begin to be resolved before...
...other side, signers of the Harvard petition call for immediate withdrawal, claiming that the Navy has broken promises before, including its MOU pledges to reduce the amount of bombing and to clean up bombed sites. The Navy, though, says it has kept these promises...
Language as it evolves is like the game of Broken Telephone, in which a whispered phrase gets increasingly distorted as it passes from lip to ear. Eventually speakers no longer discern the rule behind a motley set of mangled verbs. They just memorize them as a list, as do subsequent generations. These are the irregulars, the fossils of dead rules...