Word: forking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that he did not believe enoughstudents would be willing to fork over the ticketprice to make the event fiscally successful...
...criticisms go, Nashville Pussy is not the place to look for nuance or subtlety. I guess I first realized this when I noticed that the disc of Eat More Pussy is decorated with a knife and fork. Variety isn't a strong point, either; all the songs sound basically the same. Often, the only way I could tell that one song had ended and another had begun was the brief period of feedback which opens nearly every song, a habit I found to be too juvenile and hackneyed for the level of music they were performing...
...next introduces a green figure; the next a red blanket; the next a yellow figure; in a simply elegant way, Mansen gives woodcuts the power of cinematic narrative. Another print, "Kuche, Telle" (Kitchen, Parts), simply shows the objects to be found in a kitchen, a pot, a bowl, a fork and knife, in a two-dimensional still-life that creates, by abstracting the objects from their usual context, a strange tension between objects that seem, at first, remarkably ordinary...
...imperative that Pakistan shed its tradition of corrupt government, but few are convinced that Nawaz Sharif is the man to do this. His family is one of the richest in Pakistan, yet its members fork out only a pittance in taxes. The armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself...
Damn, I missed the train! Good, its sliding doors have opened again to let me through. Which one has happened to frazzled young Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow)? Both. It is the cunning conceit of the British romantic comedy Sliding Doors to create and follow alternative futures--both tines of that fork in life's road we all occasionally face and that leaves us wondering, What...