Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holding small children in their arms, planted themselves across from the police station and stared mutely. Students just let out of school arrived and stood in clusters six deep. Some climbed into the beds of pickup trucks to get a better view. "Bring him out," they chanted. "Kill the creep...
Those words, "a job," really creep me out. Imean, I'm no stranger to the workforce: I'veworked at pretty much every ice cream parlor inthe Boston area at one time or another, and I'veassisted a strange Willy Wonka-esque financialwizard during my years at Harvard. But these jobswere rarely that time-consuming, and my paychecksonly went towards expenses of my own devising: mycrack habit, expensive hair products, etc. Ihaven't been paying my tuition bills, you see. Itake things like heat and electricity for granted:some guy shows up every few months and putzesaround my family's basement...
...Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies but was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...
...debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...
...weightier things, lost in a flurry of well-publicized scandal. Watching "Husbands and Wives" was alternately painful for those of us who were unable to forget how miserable he seemed going to court or defending himself publicly, or infuriating for others who saw him as a creep who had gone too far. The spectacle of his life's woes on network news took away his carte blanche to detail them in 35mm film. By turning to a style whose emphasis is on the comic, rather than emphasizing something through the comic, Allen succeeds, at times, in making us forget about...