Word: expression
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...cultural weathervane, Carson straddled two eras: the 50s and 60s, when all arbiters of popular taste, from a magazine editor to a comedian-host, were expected to pretend some interest in high culture; and the last 30 years, when those same custodians of taste were allowed, commanded, to express no interest. Readers of a certain age can recall when every New York Times music critic was writing about classical music, except for the guy on the jazz beat, and when opera divas graced the cover of TIME. (No rock performers were cover boys until the Beatles in 1967.) Now neither...
...globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went...
...part of American Idiot's charm is that for an album that bemoans the state of the union, it is irresistibly buoyant. Listen closely, and you will hear a story about Jesus of Suburbia, his dangerous friend St. Jimmy and a heroic girl called Whatshername, who are struggling to express their individuality in a mass-media culture. Listen less closely, and you will still nod your head a lot and remember most of the melodies, which veer from surf rock to Motown to Broadway to thrash, usually within the same mad dash of a song...
...want or intend to interfere with discussions in classrooms, faculty publications, student remarks in chat rooms, or other communications that express the views of the individual(s) and not the institution,” the letter says. “Our grant letter relates only to the official speech and conduct of the university and to speech or conduct that the university explicitly endorses...
...knowledge and misunderstanding?punctured by the rare moment of glorious comprehension?is the space Carey has set out to explore in Wrong About Japan. It's not a journey he expected to take. His 12-year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff...