Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner than they would like and creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to Benjamin Spock as the country's pre-eminent guru on child rearing. "Many parents return to the workplace grieving...
Having found a bucolic niche in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Frazier eases himself into a story that is partly a profile of Deren, a guru to flycasters the world over and the "greatest man I know of who will talk to just anybody off the street." The author also digresses into a three-page list of the inventory in Deren's store and reminisces about his own fishing experiences and misadventures: "The woman told me to hold still and the dog wouldn't bite me. I held still, and the dog bit me in the right shoulder. I told...
Take "See You In Paradise. "Not only is that the sort of title a hippie mystic like Morrison would invent, but the opening piano chords mimic the Irish guru's "Bright Side Of The Road" with no mean precision. Similarly, "First Time," a rave up with some inspired drumming, sounds like it was written after a careful analysis of "Wavelength," and "Celtic Ballad" could be a cut on any one of Morrison's albums...
...usual, songwriting Guru Dave Faulkner focuses his trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
Wealthy, media savvy and hypersensitive to professional status, Tange is something like a Japanese Philip Johnson, but with Le Corbusier as his guru instead of Mies van der Rohe. As a teenager, Tange saw Corbusier's drawings for two huge public buildings, and he was smitten. "Right then and there," he says, "I decided to be an architect...