Word: gem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record singing bitterly about the music industry, the New York rocker/druggie lifestyle, California politics... On the first single, "Cut Your Hair," he criticizes the music industry (as Nirvana did with their "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter") just as he offers up exactly the sort of pop gem that keeps it alive. Between insanely catchy "Woo woo woo woo ooh oohs" at the beginning of each verse, he sings lyrics like "Songs mean a lot/When songs are bought/And so are you..." In the gorgeous retro-sounding "Range Life" (I'm telling you, it could be off of Highway 61 Revisted), he takes...
...great moment--a gem of masculinity in a world where Meatloaf can make a comeback crooning "I would do anything for love" like Elena Bobbit was before him with a kitchen knife--and as I drove home that day, I promised myself that I would never gain an appreciation for Brian Boitano...
...above mentioned staff, having been given the ingredients, turned them into a small gem of a museum with an international reputation. How could a few Harvard administrators naively not do their own research and fact finding? It is never too late. Girls' Latin School...
Kirkland offered us a multicultural reason for political support: "Help me...Mein Schnitzel ist caught in meine Lederhosen. Ouch! Dairo Enrique Moreno for U.C." Mr. Moreno came through with another gem of a poster: "Vote Randomly." Truly this may be the best advice given in this campaign...
...thesis apart from a general sense of disgust, so why did you change the subtitle from "Rantings of a `90s Feminist" to "Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus"? The second title seems to imply that you have one coherent idea that you flesh out, and I think your little gem should be called what it is: a collection of brilliant and pithy aphorisms. Why limit yourself? You know, in these situations, I always try to appelle un chat un chat...