Word: know
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of whether the current trend is to be "on the level of the people" in terms of brainpower, such a blatant lack of understanding about key international players is disturbing. Yes, it is unfair to expect a candidate to know specific details about each and every issue that could possibly be introduced. At the same time, the four countries mentioned have been in the news frequently; it's not as if Bush was asked to name the five major exports of Sri Lanka...
...song. Whilst Iggy was crooning all acoustic like and you were paying attention to the audience, his band members ambled out sans subtlety and picked up their instruments, so that when the next song is loud and fast, it's neither surprising nor especially heartening. Is Iggy, y'know, disavowing this soft and earnest crap he was just feeding us? Makes it worse if even he doesn't have his heart in it. This new song: "Ya yo hablo espaol" goes the refrain ("Espaol" goes the title). As they will for just about every song, the band plays hard...
...pretty much which most great art says, if you think about it. Rock and roll demands attention because it is made by losers who never got any before; pop is made by pretty boys and jocks and all the kids at Archie's Riverdale High, who have, y'know, problems and all, but never feel compelled to open up and bleed--actual plasma all pouring out over your chest as you scream incoherently--on stage, pace Iggy. Or just listen to "Search and Destroy" on the Stooge's Raw Power album: this is one of the most earnest and moving...
...skinhead hardcore band; distributed across the stage of the Somerville Theater were a bass drum with a flipped bird painted on the front, a party bottle of Jack Daniels and a riot gear-looking bullhorn. The fans that packed Davis Square's venerable fountain of obscurity know the truth about alt-rock's satirical brats, though: Ween is just kidding...
...only people who know what humanitarian law is are the governments who are breaking it and the people who aren't doing anything about it," Gutman said. "Humanitarian law has not been widely taught or recognized...