Word: detour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. "Hopefully," says Farley, "this is just a brief detour and the next time out, Pearl Jam will find its way back to the gutsy inventiveness that deservedly made it the most popular band of the early...
...film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo; it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. "Hopefully," says Farley, "this is just a brief detour and the next time out, Pearl Jam will find its way back to the gutsy inventiveness that deservedly made it the most popular band of the early...
...would not have been the first time Kemp's political career took a detour. He is a California boy, but not the California of Beach Boys songs and surfer girls. His father started a small trucking company and raised his four sons in the middle-class Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Kemp's persistence comes from his old man, who gradually expanded his business from one truck to 14, but his empathy comes from his mother, a onetime social worker and Spanish teacher...
...dependent on other people. It is a bond that is still at work when he fights to help the disabled and disfranchised, defending food stamps and voting rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. When he went to campaign in Indianapolis, Indiana, earlier this summer, he made a detour to attend the graduation party of a young girl who had been partially paralyzed in a car wreck. While other people end conversations with "So long, take care, see you soon," Dole's sign-off is a mantra against despair: "Don't give up. Don't give...
...United States for that matter, has seen the worst spate of terrorist activity in history, just in the last few years. The bombings at the World Trade Center and in Oklahoma City shocked a country used to thinking of terrorism as a Middle Eastern phenomenon which occasionally makes a detour through Europe. Now we have a replay of Pan Am 103 on our own coastline. If a bomb was responsible, we can safely say that terrorism has been imported to the United States, and where it will stop, nobody knows. This week, President Clinton unveiled a new package of security...