Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With acute sensitivity, Ozawa used the work of these two composers to probe mortality. But the concert he put together was not as morbid and ponderous as such subject matter might suggest. Rather, with artistic mastery, Ozawa performed a concert about death that, surprisingly, left us unambiguously joyful about life...
...lavish setting, a vodka-tonic, a tray of hors d'oeuvres, then well-dressed dates for everyone--the dynamic is unhealthy. It doesn't matter whether the women enter knowingly; the club's policies create a dangerous dichotomy between the "socially relaxed host," who provides the space, the drinks and the "good time," and an often sober incoming guest...
...responded half-jokingly that perhaps he and Woodman should use the terms "yin and yang" from now on. "But to deny that there are two energies is another matter," he said...
...younger, [male teen idols] used to actually look male. Now they're androgynous. Like Hanson. The first time I saw them, I thought they were girls, especially the middle one." Today's boy wonders look more and more like someone's little brother (or sister, for that matter) than bastions of masculinity. In the past, Elvis had his muscled pelvic gyrations and the members of Duran Duran, under all the eye shadow and leather, were still unquestionably...
...harsh and fickle world of teen chic, kings are crowned and deposed every fifteen minutes. MC Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while...