Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowded, introductions are tooawkward, and the event looks like a Phoeneciandrag race cheered on by drunken L.L. Bean models.But I would like to point out the upside of thiswhole dinghy derby: there are going to be largenumbers of people who have had too much to drinkand are in dire need of a place to crash. Readthat last sentence again. And this is one of thefew instances where your Harvard affiliation willelicit more than those lame "pahk ya cah" jokes...
...roll. The record ends, appropriately, with To the River, on which Mellencamp dives "down to the undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...
...potential assailants first. The battered- child-syndrome defense holds that a child can be so terrorized by years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse that he or she genuinely reads menace -- accurately or not -- into a look, a gesture, an ambiguous word that an outsider might not consider a dire threat...
...they lose money, they lose influence, and then they are helpless to avoid losing more money. If they start with little political and economic capital, they are helpless against those who have more, much more. We need a government agency to lend assistance to those in the most dire need, a sort of public defender in the lobbying arena. If politicians can turn their backs on the power brokers for a little while, they can save these groups before they fade out of existence...
...roll. The record ends, appropriately, with To the River, on which Mellencamp dives "down to the undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...