Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's an edgy feeling caused by the precise pruning of the synths and vocal samples midway, and this collage effect both reinvigorates old samples (Gwen McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs ("La Mouche"). It's not all uptempo, though. Cassius's clean, even sparse, beats shift into low gear occasionally in tunes like "Nulife". No pre-millennial tension in 1999: the French have made fun in dance music respectable again. This last tango in Paris has legs...
Americans take fairness and procedural integrity for granted, but kickbacks, bribes and nepotism are the lingua franca of politics and business in the rest of the world. (In the United States, we have "soft money" instead.) Salt Lake, with its squeaky-clean reputation as a heavily religious community, had the misfortune of being the first city to get caught, the victim of intense, some say excessive, scrutiny from an IOC looking for answers. And the saddest part of the story is that the payoff effort wasn't even necessary: Salt Lake beat Quebec in the bidding by a landslide...
...lack of chances that Harvardsuffered. The Crimson took 60 shots in thegame--atypically high for Princeton's defense--andhad numerous clean looks at the basket...
...prison, she buys his favorite foods from vending machines, then wipes a Formica tabletop clean and waits. When finally he appears, her eyes fill and so do his, and their hug seals whatever bargains they have struck...
...troops in Bosnia to come home, although their numbers continue to decline from a peak of 20,000. "I believe we are going to need a permanent presence of international troops," says Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Bosnia Serbs. Well, at least they'll be able to get clean underwear...