Word: laden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reverend Peter J. Gomes waited five minutes for the 11 a.m. bells of Memorial Church to quiet before opening a speech laden with biblical references...
...these questions are answered affirmatively, there is little room in the academy for ethnic studies. Formalistic analysis may well be disregarded in a field laden with evaluative opportunities. Yet when the transformative potential of learning is properly valued and embraced, the case reverses. If we aspire merely to become better analysts while in college, ethnic studies looks like a poor relation to such analytically developed fields as mathematics, biology or physics. But for those who aspire to become better selves, such cultural explorations can be essential starting points for reflection on the nature of communal commitment and personal identity...
...biggest, earliest solo hits, featuring the No. 1 song Heart of Gold. In 1979, working with the band Crazy Horse, Young released Live Rust, a commanding concert album that's among the finest ever made. Since then he has drifted through many styles, from the cold, synthesizer-laden Trans (1982) through the bland blues-bar rock of This Note's for You (1988) to the sublime country pop of Harvest Moon (1992). His songs are at once rawly personal and poetically empathetic. He never follows trends, only his gut. "I just play what I feel like playing," he says...
...Colombian drug kingpin Carlos Lehder-Rivas, who from 1978 to '80 was using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip. Vesco was also said to have arranged for Lehder's planes to fly through Cuban air space. There was speculation last week that Havana would turn Vesco over...
...that the English music scene is derivative or dead. Far from it. The most impressive, distinctive music to come out of Britain of late has not been the crunching chords of rock but the soulful sounds of rhythm and blues. The juxtaposition of reserved Britons and emotion-laden R. and B. may seem incongruous to some-like casting Hugh Grant in Panther. Well, burn those stereotypes. English diva Des'ree, with her relaxed vocals and optimistic lyrics, has sold a million copies in the U.S. of her new album, I Ain't Movin', and secured nearly constant airplay...