Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is the Star Wars: The Phantom Menace soundtrack like? Quite dissimilar from its predecessors, actually, though it does share a few things in common with other John Williams soundtracks...
...Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
...stories that address a limited geographical area and a limited range of settings, and which draw from the same source of tragedy, it is one of the strongest tributes to Proulx' craft that the human characters, and their various tragedies, remain discrete and distinct. Perhaps there is one common tension, the big sky pushing down with an almost unbearable weight, but each of the protagonists stands or falls alone...
...stories that address a limited geographical area and a limited range of settings, and which draw from the same source of tragedy, it is one of the strongest tributes to Proulx' craft that the human characters, and their various tragedies, remain discrete and distinct. Perhaps there is one common tension, the big sky pushing down with an almost unbearable weight, but each of the protagonists stands or falls alone...
What could be more reassuring to a young child than going to sleep with a light on? A new study to be published Thursday in the journal Nature suggests the common practice may not be such a good idea. Research from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Phildelphia indicates that children who regularly sleep with the light on before they reach the age of two exhibit a higher rate of developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia...