Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silly, swaggering and obnoxious--and those are its virtues. Korn's music isn't subtle: the volume on each song, just as in This Is Spinal Tap, is usually turned up to 11, and too many of the songs are simply numbing sonic assaults. But a few tracks grind along successfully, most notably Children of the Korn, in which rapper Ice Cube makes an engaging appearance. And the band's goofy audacity and Zeitgeist-savvy sense of humor are, at points, captivating. It's hard to completely dislike a CD that makes references to both the Waco disaster and Austin...
...case of a 19-year-old woman who got into the habit of idly biting her metal tongue bar and one day bit down on it so hard she chipped off a piece of one of her molars. "In that particular case, all I had to do was grind the tooth and smooth it down," Maibaum says. "But if the fracture had gone down into the pulp, she would have needed root canal and might have lost the tooth...
...What gives us so much confidence in him is he doesn't have a particular axe to grind," Wert said...
...Carter has turned this complex talk show into an action movie, with lots of running and falling and hauling, from North Texas to the Antarctic. It's as if the cleverest grind in class were told he had to retake P.E. before he could graduate. And that's too bad--enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile...
...front of a national audience. In these big games, even when Jordan and Pippen were not shooting well, they would forgo their jump shots, drive to the basket, and at the very least shoot fouls and slowly take over the tempo of the game. They knew how to grind down other teams when they did not have all of their game. In Game 3 against the Jazz, the 96-54 blowout, that was exactly what they did: they did not shoot particularly well in the first half, but their defensive pressure and their almost instantaneous rotations on defense were dazzling...