Word: deafness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Alcohol traditionally has featured prominently in these moments of repose from the cares and concerns of life. It drives conversation, accentuates wit, entreats laughter, makes melodious the otherwise shrill and tone-deaf, assuages old grudges, and initiates strangers into easy friendship. It makes possible what, under normal conditions of reality, would be improbable. For that very reason, as well, it poses such a danger if used irresponsibly and excessively. But, when enjoyed properly, drink has served to unite—not to divide—society...
Likes: spring rolls, CAPS LOCK, battered sausages, cake, milk, DVDs, beer, pizza, mineral water, his partially deaf grandma, G-rated movies, bowling, time travel, Coke, Coke Zero, banana...
...World Bank message is simple but is likely to fall on deaf ears. The natural urge to protect one's own country is likely to trump the act of giving, and getting around that is nearly impossible...
...functions economically even in peacetime. Clinton and the state department must let North Korea know that we are sick of playing the “cry wolf” game. Our military exercises will continue, and the government in Pyongyang can either grow up, or issue another statement to deaf ears. For now, North Korea has given the world no reason to take it seriously...
...amid the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the sludge of traditional romance--and despite way too much tone-deaf acting--Watchmen has splashes of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies...