Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which the boys allow us to see the nonsensical verbiage which was smattered across their earlier records. Lines like, "Major Domo/Plastic Como/Barbarella" should say it all. This is pure unadulterated Duran-ness...
...know a lot of people who choose this behavior on campus and I love them like anyone else," she said. "We all have different areas of sin and it is only when we see the brokenness and pain and lonli- ness of it are we willing to look to Christ for forgiveness and love...
...chunks." I had read only one chapter of Bastard Out of Carolina, and the protagonist hadn't even finished sketching out her family history. The impending return of my cousins from work buzzed around my head like an increasingly angered insect, steadily rising in decibel. But the pleasures alone-ness had brought to me over that short afternoon, ephemeral as they may have been, had been a soothing balm for my raw and irritated nerves. To be able to select a room in which to recline while listening to the cheep of birds carried with it the lovely lilt...
...them that love her, most great to them that know; We may not count her armies, we may not see her King; Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering; And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase, And her ways are ways of gentle- ness and all her paths are peace...
...Sure," Van Ness answers when asked. That response, of course, is only the beginning of a story that quickly spins out of Nelson's and, eventually, everyone else's control, except for the author's, who narrates this trajectory of calamities with noteworthy energy and skill. And Johnson is obviously aiming for something more here than standard-issue pulp-fiction chills. In their reflective moments his whacked-out villains have a tendency to quote Nietzsche, as if to explain themselves to themselves and the reader. But Johnson does not make clear where, among so many burned-out characters, the reader...