Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restaurant in Stuttgart, and being in this one helps soothe his nerves, even though there is very little food on the tables. Muhamed has just buried his 19-year-old son Rihad. "We cannot hold out much longer," he says, but laments that there seem to be no choices except slow starvation or fighting to the death. "We have nothing left," he says. "This is now a city without hope...
Since the band's strengths are in the music, these instrumentals have solid sounds that continue to switch from stony to eerie In the song "Seattle," wordless except for the occasional "Seattle," the samples make you perk your ears and wonder what the track would sound like backwards. Otherwise, the instrumentals continue with the band's quality noise...
...writes in his mood of apocalyptic gloom. His hero, tormented by daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring the fat and ugly). His mental...
...significantly higher." Still, the repeatedly cited trade deficit that's creeping past $100 billion is just for manufactured goods -- cars, stuffed animals, nonferrous metals. In the services category, which includes all show-business output, the U.S. is running a $50 billion worldwide trade surplus. Hooray for Hollywood? Sure, except that nearly all our current hit movies -- Jurassic Park, Sleepless in Seattle, In the Line of Fire -- were released by studios that happen to be owned by the Japanese...
...unexpected setback for pro-abortion-rights forces in Congress, the House voted 255 to 178 to maintain the Hyde amendment -- the 16-year-old ban on Medicaid funding of abortions for poor women, except when the mother's life is jeopardized and in cases of rape or incest. The Senate could still revise the language...