Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried--here she reached for the supreme code word of touchy-feely self-pity--to "cope." This performance was not exactly Henry II having himself ostentatiously flogged for causing the death of Thomas Becket. But it was, in its own bloodless way, mortifying--as the Queen's frenzied subjects meant...
...Shlemiel the First" is in fact meant to be novelty, and little else. Wives battle their husbands; men cross-dress; pickles and common Yiddish expressions are tossed around as stage gags. The trite phrases and cliched idioms that dominate prove poor substitutes for content. The company is forced to play out their roles with over-enthusiastic and sometimes spastic fervency...
Which brings us to the most obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...
...said last fall, architecture is meant to be used. And now the Union has been put to good use. Everyone gained from the University's decision to renovate. The Union is alive and productive First-years are--or should be--pleased to dine in Annenberg's stained-window-tiered Hall. And the campus looks all the better...
There is a parallel that we are meant to keep in the back of our minds whenever we think about the North Korean famine: the African famine of the 1980s. The press mentions it here and there, tucked in the middle of articles...