Word: meaninful
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...Boogie's not a meanin', boogie's a feelin'. Boogie takes the question marks outa yer eyes, puts little exclamation marks in they place. Are ya on my beam? Boogie's when the rest of the world is lookin' you straight in the eye sayin' you'll never be able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion...
...this generation to live. The emphasis is removed from the old institutions of political activity. Political organizations lived on a myth. One felt a certain self-importance but it didn't make much of a dent in the totality of things. Acting, singing, writing and composing have a different meanin. They are more expressive and more youthful. Furthermore, the arts allow a complete experience of planning and doing with the result an event as authentic as it will ever be, if not so perfect...
...turns him into champion boxer, he ousts unrepaid. The girl he is forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up where...
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