Word: hollower
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Portishead BRITAIN Atmospheric, surreal trip-hop music; Geoff Barrow produces, and vocalist Beth Gibbons' hollow voice haunts every track. These songs pull listeners two ways: they make you want to dance and to despair. Key album: Dummy...
This way, when you are assaulted in the Yard a month from now, you can just say, “I totally remember you, you’re from New Jersey, right?” Then you can resume your hollow Freshman Week discussion of outstanding Garden State malls and diners, and your new friend will have no idea that you have no recollection of your first meeting...
...book, written with co-author Ted Dekker, is (like the "Left Behind" series) chock full of hi-tech and hollow-point bullets, but for Left Behind's apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned...
Instead of providing a much needed substantive discussion of the changing relations of power and authority between adults and children, you provided us with a hollow piece of white, middle-class navel gazing. Children have clearly achieved a new, more empowered status as consumers, but you overstated the degree to which that has given kids the upper hand. More toys do not equal more power. In terms of politics, social policy and the institutions that directly affect and shape their lives, children continue to be relegated to the margins of social and political life. KYSA KOERNER HUBBARD Minneapolis, Minn...
...into any one of the 200 or so cell types that make up a human being. That opened the door to remarkable possibilities, including replacement cells for malfunctioning pancreases, injured spinal cords and plaque-clogged brains. It also brought stern warnings. Though the sacrificed embryos were no more than hollow, pinhead-size clusters of a few dozen cells, destroying them for whatever purpose represented, in the mind of many antiabortion conservatives, an assault on a human life...