Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back home, Kennedy's heart wasn't in the D.A.'s office, and he was getting tired of faking it. In 1993, he left and began thinking about doing something big--another kind of public service, but one that would take a form he had grown all too familiar with: magazine journalism. He and a friend, public relations man Michael Berman, talked about creating a political magazine that would be glossy and entertaining but also empowering--one that would inspire alienated people to get involved in politics, and help give them the tools to do so. The magazine would also...
With such a breakneck schedule, one would expect the music of Belle and Sebastian to mirror many independent domestic projects in poor recording quality, sloppy production and slackerly filler material. Instead, lyrics and music form an almost hyper-aesthetic experience--carefully produced, with fine-tuned instrumentation and clever lyrics. The singer Stuart Murdoch softly whispers phrases about the uncertain nineties with an approach reminiscent of the '70s poet-singer Nick Drake. The instrumentation includes a trumpet, cello, flute and beautiful keyboard that unite in complex harmoniousness...
...hard guitar dabblings on past works like his paranoid cover of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," or the insistent dance of his "James Bond" theme, Play is subtler in sound. Moby intricately combines gospel and blues samples with modern instrumentation to form a hybrid of old and new. Songs like the haunting "Why does my heart feel so bad?" and the jaunty "Run On" are distinctly modern yet also contain profound echoes of the past...
...demographic's kinship with MTV, which has a joint venture with Pocket Books, and with the Internet and kids' ease in processing information in unconventional formats. Smack is told by multiple narrators. Monster, the latest novel by veteran children's book author Walter Dean Myers, is recounted in the form of a screenplay. Louis Sachar's Holes, last year's Newbery and National Book Award winner about a boy erroneously sent to a juvenile detention center, shuttles between past and present...
Another substance found in fruits and vegetables, though, does seem to have a protective effect against one form of malignancy: dietary fiber clearly reduces the risk of colon cancer. That link is sufficiently well established that the National Cancer Institute recommends that Americans increase their average daily fiber intake...