Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Musically, the Goo Dolls are your run-of-the-mill mainstream alternative band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by so many homophonic songs with its abrupt pauses and nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy...
...flash of irony, the Undergraduate Council--an institution already on wobbly legs, yet one with a sizable budget and sizable list of both responsibilities and opportunities--has proven incapable of completing the most basic task before it: the election of its own members...
...thrilling foray into independence and adult responsibility, she did what so many young people do when they leave the nest: she assembled a surrogate family for herself. She chose her father figure, Bill Clinton, even before she got to town, it seems, and won him over in a panty-flash. But finding a stand-in mother took a while. For a time Betty Currie, the President's secretary, seemed to fill the role, but when Lewinsky was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon, she apparently found a new mama: Linda Tripp. Lewinsky's dysfunctional household was complete, with...
...BENNETT You're the prez's big-time lawyer, but here's a flash: he tunes you out when you talk...
...Flash back to 1984 and Jesse Jackson's first tumultuous presidential campaign. He had come under heavy fire from the press for privately referring to Jews by the insulting nickname "Hymie" and New York City as "Hymietown." And like the President, he had lied about it. The first black leader of any real weight to come to Jackson's defense was Louis Farrakhan, the Black Muslim leader. At a rally in Chicago, addressing the Jews he blamed for Jackson's problems, Farrakhan brayed, "I warn you in the name of Allah to leave this servant of God alone...