Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instant.' Seriously, does anyone know what this kid got on the Wunderlick exam? I can't wait for this gangsta's next book where his forward says, I would like to thank my idol--Michael Irvin--for telling me when it is appropriate to smoke crack and where the best prosti--errrrrr--self-employed models can be found.' Economics concentrators rule, pre-meds suck...
...threat to national security. Under the revisions, police can approve a demonstration on short notice "in exceptional circumstances." However, nothing in the bill outlined what those circumstances would be. Hong Kong residents fear that China plans a gradual reining in of free speech, for example using the laws to crack down on popular talk-radio shows, cartoons that lampoon China's top officials and other manifestations of diverse expression...
...same dry rot passivity that's eaten away at educational institutions across the country for the last two decades is finally beginning to crack the ivory tower. It is easy for us as students to claim immunity from social responsibility within the community. After all, we are just students here. We live in dorms; we don't live in Cambridge...
...instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine old tendency to synthesize, not isolate, strains of music. Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith's salving ballads, God might tap His foot. Even Kurt Cobain might crack an enlightened smile...
...worked like a man, like a dog, doing gorgeous stunts in such terrific films as The Heroic Trio, Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun, and suffered torn ligaments, cracked ribs, jangled neck vertebrae and a dislocated shoulder. She was seriously injured in 1995, while shooting Ah Kam. "It wasn't one of my difficult stunts," Yeoh says blithely, "just jumping off an 18-ft. wall. I landed on my head, and my neck went crack! Every muscle, every ligament in my body was screaming. At the hospital they put me in cement to keep me immobile." A month later...