Word: listens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list: launder money), to a White Plains, N.Y., airfield, where a private jet flew him and two women, Mona Kim and Jackie Ju, to Rome, along with 25 suitcases and that stash of diamonds. Then he jaunted through Italy and Germany in chauffeured limousines, steadfastly maintaining to whoever would listen that his case was a misunderstanding that would blow over...
...Jedd, 15, a friend of some of the suspects, says they were made fun of and that they vowed to shoot anyone who got in their way during the rampage. Yet Jedd's mother Debra recalls that when the suspects visited, they were well-mannered kids who liked to listen to the rock group Korn and play video games. "If I didn't think they were good kids, they wouldn't have been allowed in my home," she says...
...Flora's penchant for repetition seems more like a necessary part of her personality than a flaw in the text. By the time she delivers her final monologue, in which she turns her handbag into a child just so she has something to love, it is very hard to listen without wanting to stand up and help...
...This "rock star" approach is deeply at odds with a more vital function of rock music, that of political, social and cultural protest. As Liebert observes, it's a shame that Germans have dropped Schubert to adopt Fiona Apple. However, the true shame is that Germans (and Americans, too) listen to the inane drivel pushed on MTV and Top 40 stations instead of listening to music which would express their frustrations or increase their sensitivity to beauty or pain. Rock music is as adept at this function as Schubert...
When Pete Sampras is losing, I scream at my television. I underline every other sentence I read even in books that are "just for fun." I hug my friends frequently and fiercely. And I cannot listen to a song I know without belting along with the singer. I have oft been the victim of the cruel question, "Who sings this song?" only to give the artist's name and receive the response, "Let's keep it that...