Word: excepts
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...much nothingness involved in a complicated structure as there is in a big empty field. So the nothingness that we’re approaching here is kind of like—it’s as present in pop music as it is in anything else except in this case it’s kind of pointing towards it. It’s saying this space here listen—it gives a little bit of intelligence to the listener as far as attending. Where you can actually let your mind listen from one thing to the next thing...
...little over a year ago, 10 friends got together in San Francisco over a potluck dinner. There were a few teachers, a technology marketer, an engineer, a dog handler. What would it be like, they wondered amid the Christmas shopfest, if they all pledged not to buy anything new except food, medicine and essential toiletries for a year? Thus was born a movement that they named, in a light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that...
...support the existing population. And, although he says some animals might be introduced into what are now buffer areas around the park, Fan notes that the pressure on the protected zone from factories, roads and human habitation is immense and likely to keep growing. He also concedes that, except for ungulates like deer and antelopes, rehabilitation programs are notoriously unsuccessful, with the animals rarely able to shake their dependency on human handouts. Several long-term efforts to reintroduce orangutans into Indonesia's fast-disappearing forests have met with scant success, for example. Even Keiko the killer whale (the inspiration...
Look at the numbers. Of the top 10 worldwide box-office champs as tabulated by Boxofficemojo.com all except the No. 1 Titanic are franchise movies, and seven of those nine are sequels--episodes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Shrek. (That's in actual figures. In inflation-adjusted dollars, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the all-time winner, and no sequels make the top 10.) Dead Man's Chest, last year's second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, was only the third film in history, after Titanic...
...Manhattan first celebrated the new year's arrival in Times Square in 1907 - with a 78,000-pound iron and wood ball - and except for two years during World War II, has done so every year since, though the ornament has lost a lot of weight, svelting down to a 150-lb. aluminum ball in 1955. In the old days the thing dropped through the efforts of six burly workmen and a guy with a stopwatch. Now it's all done by computer...