Word: maye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, Americans take to the streets only to express their political views when they believe the electoral system isn't responding to their concerns. And it's hardly surprising that those on the streets in Seattle may doubt the effectiveness of taking up their grievances at the polls in an electoral system totally beholden to the millions of dollars of corporate "soft money" that greases the wheels of both parties. Long after the ink has dried on the last signature of the last trade deal in Seattle, the aftershocks of the battle for its streets may reverberate in American...
...through. In "Mas Que Nada," his voice is never powerful enough to generate any true get-up-and-swing Latin excitement. If you decide to avoid sure humiliation in your roommate's eyes by programming "Beat It" and "Ooh Child" out and listening to only the Spanish songs, you may be able to enjoy a few of the easy beats as you close your eyes and dream of old jazz clubs and big bands. But somehow Nascimento's tribute to the era still sounds like a cheap imitation, complete with anachronistic R&B beats and some off-key harmonies...
...This new infusion of fiction into the contemporary biography seems as much a symptom of readership as of much-pondered methodology. It may be ultimately impossible to recreate someone's life in words, and therefore perhaps one might as well add a bit of fiction to a biography. But a much more compelling reason for creativity in biography stems from the problem of entertaining the reader. If the reader wants to relive the life of John Glenn, why not let the reader relive an embellished life of Reagan, in a sense more complete and enticing than the real thing. Does...
...pedestrian as book-buyers' motivations may seem, the recent proliferation of biographies shows that biographers today are indeed playing with the conception of biography as a genre. In Sarte's novel, Roquentin's struggles with this problem led him to abandon his biography. Those who persevere and finish a biography have made many choices along the way that are vital in determining what sort of biography will emerge. These questions can be divided into two categories: how the author obtains and interprets the sources concerning the subject, and exactly how the subject is defined...
...while the debate itself may not have moved most people, audience members were happy to see the candidates together, at last...