Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the police and medics got to the scene, I was only dimly aware of them. I have a confused memory of being cut from the twisted metal with a huge pair of yellow hydraulic shears, the so-called Jaws of Life, and laid on a stretcher. As they were loading me into the ambulance, Danny O'Sullivan's face swam into focus, looking down at me. "You'd have to be the toughest old bastard I know," he said encouragingly. Give me a break, I said. You used to be in the SAS; you know plenty tougher than...
Throughout the show, there's an obsession with the body, leering humor about sex and yammering about death. Tracey Emin's canvas tent called Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) is done inside with crudely laid-out names and notes about old paramours. It camps out a short distance from Mona Hatoum's more elegant but hardly deep creation (despite its title, Deep Throat): a dining table with proper tablecloth and silver, and a plate whose bottom is a video screen showing the travels of an invasive camera down a human gullet...
...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
...hook by a government corruption inquiry that found no evidence that he?d diverted state funds into his own charities ? even though it turns out some of those charities were receiving public money and then loaning it to private corporations. But Suharto may be benefiting from the narrow terms laid down for the inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe focused exclusively on Suharto?s charities, and a Habibie aide told the BBC that Suharto could not be prosecuted over the numerous decrees he passed benefiting his family over the national economy because those...
...keep it all together, infusing their songs with enough melody to bind all the heavy beats and distortion together. That said, their new album Soundsystem doesn't actually break any new ground. It's your trusty old 311, complete with echoing vocal harmonies, staccato snares and spurts of laid back, good-natured rap. There's little innovation beyond the already-extant originality of their sound. Even worse, you won't find a catchy single like "Down" or "All Mixed Up" anywhere. That's unfortunate, because songs in that vein were easily the band's strongest material. The closest approximations...