Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approximately 50 middleaged men and women have gathered to express themselves through freestyle dance...
...member of the worldwide gay community, I want to express my sympathy to the family and friends of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay [NATION, Oct. 26]. The murder of this young man is a crime against humanity. I was born in an era when homosexuality was even more misunderstood than it is today, and it was a criminal offense...
Edith Wharton's well known novella, Ethan Frome--a tale of love, forbidden passion and its tragic consequences--lends itself particularly well to a genre whose main intention is to represent and express human feelings on a grander scale. And that genre is none other than opera. Opera vows to unite music and poetry so as to engage the audience in feeling as much empathy, compassion and even terror as possible...
...shouldn't not like bands simply because they're on the radio. You should be happy that good bands get played on the radio so you can listen to good stuff instead of the crap they usually put on." And he adds, "I don't think we are really expressing resentment against things that we try that don't work." This would be all very well and good, except that the songs express resentment, not simply frustration...
...catchy music, it is often difficult to take the messages of the songs on Why Do They Rock So Hard seriously. Perhaps the inconsistency of the music and the lyrics is a failing, allowing listeners to willfully misunderstand or ignore the meanings that Reel Big Fish are attempting to express. But the inconsistency may also serve to highlight alternative music's disturbing acceptance of conflict. And besides, if Reel Big Fish set their lyrics to appropriately violent music, their songs would not be nearly as much...