Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even bigger offense: Michael's album is just plain boring. None of the songs move much faster than a beverage cart down the cramped aisle of a passenger airplane. Faith, Michael's first solo album, was appealing partly because he seemed to be working so hard to entertain us--songs like Hard Day featured sweaty, muscular dance rhythms; ballads like One More Try had amusingly earnest vocals. Michael's new songs are too concerned with seriousness and maturity to break a sweat. In his attempt to make music that's restrained, adult and timeless, he's instead crafted songs that...
...through one of Shakespeare's worse plays. The Quincy House production does as best as can be expected with a faulty script and limited resources. At the end of the play, as is typical of Shakespeare, the King states that, as actors, the cast's only desire is to entertain. Although there were some unsatisfactory complications to the play, as far as this desire goes, "All's Well" lives up to its name...
...hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...
...take on Expos: it is the only undergraduate requirement which I consider sacred. Bad writing bothers me. I will entertain debate about the administration of Expos but not the necessity of it. Departmental bypasses are still under consideration, and I cannot predict at this point what the committee will decide...
...attitude that a free and democratic society can hold: that life is not worth living and that all our efforts will eventually lead to pain and disappointment. The most frustrating aspect of this is that often such thought is not expressed genuinely but rather because it will shock and entertain and earn a profit...