Word: flinch
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...rest of the day at Harvard was marked by an unusual, eerie quiet. Students crowded silently before TVs in dining halls and rooms, venturing outside only to flinch whenever planes flew overhead...
...track "Flinch" is a perfect example of her stream-of-consciousness posturing. With lines like, "how long can a girl be tortured by you" the real question should be how many different ways can Morissette find to voice the same trite complaint? The rest of the album is more of the same. "So Unsexy", "Narcissus", and "21Things I Want In a Lover" could easily double as boy trouble letters sent to Seventeen...
Jazz musicians are famously laid-back and, true to form, Danny Fox does not flinch when discussing the “t-word” (he’s not writing a thesis) or the “f-word” (plans for the future are comfortably vague and pretty much wide open at this point). “I’ll either be married with three kids. Or pursuing my life long dream of joining the circus or of becoming a male model…” he says, rattling off an extensive list...
...Australia isn't about to flinch, though, with the Sydney Morning Herald reporting that Prime Minister John Howard will have none of the muttering of the Europeans, and his neighbors in Indonesia, about pausing the bombing for Ramadan. Such a pause, say the Aussies, will give Al Qaeda and the Taliban an opportunity to regroup...
...Last week only the fear of it was finely ground and easily spread--but with each new report at a newsroom or mail room, a new conversation was gathering force. How tough are we? How ready are we? How long will this last? From that question, Cheney did not flinch. "These changes we have made are permanent," he said, "at least in the lifetimes of most...