Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with one, final remark from the defense attorney: "The day has been coming for quite some time now. For decades, the city has slept, awaiting its moment to rise up, conquer its foes and finally establish itself as a city as committed to sports as its cafe mocha and Nirvana. Sports fans of America, I invite you all to sit back, relax and witness the revolution...
...variety of celestial landscapes in the West, Islam and Buddhism have raised their own particular paradises: the Koran details a heaven filled with beautiful, large-eyed "companions" and youths of perpetual freshness; the sutras speak of a multiplicity of "Buddha fields," pleasant way stations on the journey to Nirvana. Adding to the plenitude, the New Age is now unrolling its own versions of eternity. The best-selling author, internationally renowned medium and healer Rosemary Altea, for example, speaks of her vision: "Heaven is not a place; it's a state of awareness. Heaven is where your heart is, where your...
...Asian Buddhists call it, know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once the journey to God is finished, the infinite journey in God begins...
...there isn't any music playing. I don't even think music is cool anymore. People who buy Nirvana albums are dorks...
...leading lights shouldn't be written off--R.E.M. and Hootie probably both have more than a few big, interesting albums left in them. It's worth remembering too that the music business is cyclic. Every few years critics proclaim that rock is dead, and then a band like Nirvana--or the Sex Pistols before them--comes around and changes everything. Now the hunt is definitely on for the next Next Big Thing. Ska is a candidate, with groups like No Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There are also electronic...