Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt. "I knew I couldn't fit into a Whitney Houston mode," says the laid-back Larrieux. Instead, her voice evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead. The songs here are similarly subdued and flow casually along, like the wistful Hey U and the jaunty Ride. Occasionally, however, they take on harsh subjects such as crack addiction, as on the softly funky 10 Minute High. "Everybody tells her to stop...
GENERAL POWELL WITH HIS HONESTY, sincerity, loyalty and common sense would never fit in or survive in Washington. Why throw a perfectly good apple into a bushel filled with rotten ones? GEORGE S. KULAS Fond du Lac, Wisconsin...
...GINGRICH RETURNED FROM HIS Thanksgiving break not refreshed but chastened. Over the holiday, he had worried aloud with his wife and grown children about what he had done to himself and the Republicans. His plan to balance the budget was a month behind schedule. He had thrown a childish fit about his treatment aboard Air Force One, then connected a grisly triple murder in suburban Chicago to "the welfare state." His popularity had been dropping, taking his party's down with it. On Monday he announced he would not run for President...
...male machismo. It is this false sense of knowledge, based not on experience but on easy answers and ready-made explanations offered by escapist non-fiction, that can truly be damaging. Logically, it would seem that problems would be better solved looking at each relationship rather than trying to fit our jigsaw pieces into someone else's puzzle...
Throughout the performance, both the plot and characterization stood out as naive. Bluntschli being referred to as the "chocolate creme" soldier was immature and Louka's girlish innocence didn't quite fit her character. The childhood regression seemed inappropriate for the subject at hand. Possibly Shaw was trying to contrast adolescent naivete with the harsh reality of the late 19th century war setting, but the concepts repelled each other more than making a statement...