Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four years ago, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band would sound fresh, intelligent and original. Now, however, the band sounds like it steals from the talents of musicians such as Tom Petty. Live On, their new album, seems to be trying for a folk-rock-ballad like quality, with an overuse...
Someone not very nice once succinctly enumerated our contemporary tendencies "toward the literal, the conformist, and the amnesiac." Although the first two trends are probably guiding your dismissal of this as weird and poorly written--and much of it is--I've been dealing mainly with the last one. I...
It was worse because this year, for the first time in about half a decade, the Red Sox reminded me how much I love baseball. Busy college life and an ever-shorter attention span had weakened my passion for the sport (though not for my team), and I'd taken...
In the first page of his Antimemoirs, Andre Malraux tells how in a clear night he met a Catholic priest with whom he had fled months before from the German invasion of France and who at the time was busy handing out false certificates of baptism to persecuted Jews. Malraux...
It's all enough to make you forget the sales pitch. And the characters are so alive that if someone asks you, "Isn't Toy Story 2 a computer-generated cartoon?" you may say, "You know, I never noticed. I was too busy having a great time."