Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the melodies-beside the straight-from-the-Casio beat-seem lifted from early Nintendo game soundtracks; the rest consist of playful riffs repeated until they grow mesmerizing, or just irritating. The brilliance behind Doktor Kosmos, which shines through in only three or four songs, is that you don't turn it off sooner. It's the great accomplishment of mindless muzakians and pop drum machine artists everywhere that you find yourself guiltily listening to "Don't Look at Photographs" or "Holiday" one more time...
...metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...
RICHARD BRANSON, founder of the Virgin music-and-airline empire, remembers that Diana could grow pointedly funny about symbols of royalty. "She would often take the mickey out of Charles and the royal family," he recalls. "Once at a dinner party, a guest said to Diana, 'I know you don't like dogs.' 'Oh, no,' said Diana. 'It's not dogs I don't like; it's corgis. They get the blame for all the farts.'" Corgis are the breed usually associated with Queen Elizabeth...
...spanking in and of itself is not abuse when done properly. Rather, this method of discipline serves to let the child know that his or her actions have consequences other than "Now don't do that again, Johnny," which goes in one ear and out the other. Undisciplined children grow up to be undisciplined young adults without concern for the rights of others. Those who fell for the New Age philosophy against spanking are now reaping what they have sown. SUE SCHULTZ Jacksonville...
Sources said Rudenstine will form a University-wide Physical Planning Committee to review construction proposals across the University with an eye toward mediating community disputes and appropriating land use among Harvard's nine schools as parcels grow ever more scarce...