Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meadows brother live): "Last Sunday I heard myself say/A good day for you is a good day for me/Can't believe I've sunk this low/Is this something good? I don't know..." "Aloha Street" alternates the self-reproachful lines of the verses with a rebarbative four-note hook that seems to be making fun of the singer's romantic aspirations." "Our eyes first met across a crowded room"--and then the hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo...
Farrakhan is foul, but he is useful insofar as he casts light upon the larger confusion. For this reason, he should not be pressured, nor should any black leader be pressured, to recant anything. This lets him, and the present state of race relations in this country, off the hook. It is an invitation to euphemism, as Farrakhan cheerfully showed. We all should know what each of us thinks, and draw our conclusions. The advertisement in which the Anti- Defamation League reprinted Kallid Abdul Muhammad's little catalog of hatreds was brilliant for its restraint. It was an exercise...
Slat 6 songs are strikingly simple: typically, there's one guitar hook, one notable response from the bass line, and a short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It...
This cooperation may ultimately be what gets Harvard off the compensation hook. The University could deny any liability, arguing that it was the federal government which first approved the research...
...SPEECH TO A FEW DOZEN STUDENTS at Kean College in Union, New Jersey, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a senior official with the Nation of Islam, got thousands of people mad. He called Jews "hook-nosed, bagel-eatin', lox-eatin' " imposters. He attacked Catholics: "The old no-good Pope . . . somebody need to raise that dress up and see what's really under there." Gays: "God does not name holy books after homosexuals." And even other blacks, including Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates: "Who let this Negro out of the gate...