Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bass line found in "Cruel" catches the listener's ear once again in "iieee," giving the album a disappointing aura of deja vu before it is even halfway listened to. "Black Dove (January)," the first of the album's quiet numbers, bears short chorus that immediately brings to mind the song "Past the Mission" from Under the Pink...
...knows everything. I don't mean she knows I stay up past midnight or don't pay my library fines. I mean she knows I smoke, I drink, I alter my mind, I didn't wait until marriage--stuff that makes the parents reach for the smelling salts or the shotgun, depending on the household, the guilt of impersonating the angelic 18-year-old before my parents had been the only shadow over my heady new discoveries. But I was torn between the attraction of filial honesty and the terror of parental persecution...
...long road from that disillusion, and near the rock bottom that alcoholics talk of having to hit, Lorian was up in Michigan on the Big Two-Hearted River, the subject of a photo shoot. Never mind that Ernest had actually fished the nearby Fox River, which had more trout, and merely used the Big Two-Hearted name because he liked it. Her difficulty was that she was drinking 32 cans of beer a day. An old, reformed alcoholic camped nearby told her she needed help, and that the truth hurts...
...read the stories that have emerged in the past week about how hard it will be for China to keep the value of its currency stable, bear in mind that these reports have appeared just before Bill Clinton's trip to China. Chinese officials, who have promised they will not devalue the renminbi, have started issuing veiled warnings that with the yen falling, staying the course may be problematic...
...hidden agenda that awaits Bill Clinton in China. More consultation with Beijing wouldn't hurt. But if the U.S. lets China into the WTO without insisting that Beijing abide by the same rules as everyone else, the entire global trading system could be jeopardized. Clinton should keep in mind that China needs us a good deal more than we need...