Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want to learn about the way the human brain works? Don't open up a textbook. Just lift the hood of your...
...Secret Negotiations to Lift Iraqi Sanctions...
...created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit the Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard Klayderman...
...work of artists assuming a character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...
...Billy Graham is America's perennial deus ex machina, sweeping in to lift up those befuddled by modernity. But what will happen to evangelism when he passes from the scene...