Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Less than a week after the much-publicized "Does God Exist?" debate, hundreds of Ivy League students dedicated their weekend to answering the question with a resounding affirmative...
...Amanda! Oh my God! Well, I haven't actually spoken on the phone to you since Christmas, loser. Maybe if you tried to reach out and touch someone rather than just writing all of us three-line, `I'm-really-busy-but-I'II-write-you-a-real-letter-soon' e-mails, I'd be able to remember what you actually sound like...
...God, how can I forget? It was fun hanging out with you all the time. But I need to move on to bigger and better jobs...
...Other, less talented rappers might have turned the song into something venomous and exploitative. Nas' rendering of this bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying Love is "now under God, we elope." And then there is a single gunshot. Nas takes no joy in his raps of woe; he's a reporter coolly relaying the madness of his world and the turmoil in his heart...
...very short time. It is now a $1 billion-a-year industry that accounts for some 23,000 live births a year in the U.S. But its well-publicized mishaps have moral overtones. Are we interfering with the natural order of things, allowing doctors to play God...