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Word: coverings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is hope that the 2000 vote will be less staged-managed than expected: a third party run. I'd be happy because as a journalist, it'd be fun to cover...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: A Cancer on Politics | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

This summer, I decided that I was going to live with strangers. As much as I love my mother's cooking, I knew that I couldn't handle another summer at home. It was time for a change. So, after sending out the requisite cover letters and resumes, I bought my ticket to London. With some pride, I informed my parents ever-inquisitive friends that no, I did not have prearranged housing--I would find a place when I arrived...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, | Title: Finding A Flat | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...Children Will Be Next," it's a dour piece. The wrenching anguish in James Bradfield's voice combines with Nicky Wire's lyrics ("I've got to stop smiling it gives the wrong impression") to create an air of bleakness not unlike the vast empty expanse on the album cover. This slips into pretentiousness at times, such as in the final song "S.Y.M.M." ("South Yorkshire Mass Murderer"), but on the whole the Manics have cut a gloriously anthemic album...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pretentious Perfection | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...keep its competitors busy registering the ----.coms and the &%$#!%.coms, its monopoly on addresses in the more respectable cyberhoods just might remain intact. The company did run the plan by the Commerce Department ?- which shrugged and pointed to the First Amendment ?- but this is just the kind of cover-the-children?s-eyes issue that congressmen love. Or at least argue about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Wacky World of Dirtyword.com | 7/29/1999 | See Source »

...Chili Peppers closed the concert with a cover version of Jimi Hendrix?s "Fire," hundreds of concertgoers used candles distributed by an anti-gun-violence group to torch a number of vendors? trucks and set fires on and around the stage. Soon the hooligans in the crowd were looting concession stands and portable ATMs, and trashing speakers and other equipment in what some witnesses described as a reaction to the inflated prices the crowd had endured over three days of peaceful partying. In an action unthinkable back in ?69, organizers then called in the police to secure the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chili Peppers Fiddle as Rome Burns | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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