Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his parents, followed him to Durham, where they all checked into a double room at the Brookwood Inn, about 500 yds. from the Duke Hospital entrance. On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure." Without a new liver soon, he would die. The family was in no mood to learn, as they did that afternoon from Trotter, that PHP wanted Todd moved to a hospital where it had a capitation contract limiting their financial exposure. Trotter would not tell Kim exactly where they wanted him to go, but it was the University...
...Starr gets his way, a very shortsighted Congress will devour the President. Then the people, in revulsion, will devour the Congress. Empires die; it is only a matter of when it will happen. Each generation has to renew its vigor. DONALD KINGSBURY Montreal...
When a string of violent and bizarre murders occur on the campus of Pendleton College, spunky and independent student Natalie (Alicia Witt) realizes that a psychopath has decided to turn urban legends into reality. Her friends are predictably skeptical and go on to die in ways corresponding to how nasty they have been. There, the plot: now you don't have to see it. Maybe, you say, "Given that its is a horror film, I really would like to see a bit of mild violence and creative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you. There's a drive-by hanging...
...paced rhythms and, at the chorus, slide up scales for an almost uplifting effect. The music, in fact, tends to belie the plaintiveness of the lyrics. How the Goo Dolls write something so dolorous as, "See the young man sitting/In the old man's bar/Waiting for his turn to die" into a tune so whistleable as "Broadway" is a marvel and, perhaps, the saving grace of this album. One might criticize the hackneyed phrasing, the pretentious lead vocals, and the uncreative musicianship, but the upshot of Dizzy Up the Girl is that its melodies are so memorable and euphonious...
...things I'm talking about," says Grove. "Sometimes what Apple does has an electrifying effect on the rest of us." The iMac, it should be noted, is built around processors made by Motorola, not Intel. Grove is not uncritical of the translucent blue box; like other die-hard Mac fans, he misses the floppy-disk drive...