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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Nick Carter came out of nowhere (Orlando) last year, five clean-shaven, moussed-and-gelled actors-turned-singers with the uncanny ability to harmonize their voices. Within weeks, the nightclub beats, two-note bass lines and the way they managed to look so damn sexy in those baggy jeans won the Boys international attention. An instant favorite among the twelve and thirteen year-old set and a must-have on birthday party playlists around the world, the Backstreet Boys became media darlings as well...
...product of her marriage. And, she has hadn't even used that happy coincidence to particularly impressive effect. Granted, she has championed a few pet causes, but certainly with no greater success than previous First Ladies and certainly with much grander failure. It seems that her only accomplishment of note has been her ability to endure Bill's chronic infidelity. Why is this praiseworthy...
...written the plays (based on alternative sources) and kept them private. According to Dickson, only the panic that Protestant England would revert to Inquisitorial control propelled the earl's heirs, in 1622, to rush a set of plays into print and posterity as the First Folio. That edition, Oxfordians note, was dedicated to two noble kinsmen--one brother married to a daughter of the earl, the other having come close to marrying her sister...
...future is very near. Charles Barkley, 35, who huffs and puffs alongside Hakeem Olajuwon and ex-Bull Scottie Pippen, can tell you what it's like to get old: "I don't think I can have sex three days in a row. Not good sex, anyway." And on that note, Happy Valentine's Day from...
...human perception, in which you must drink sleep that the forest may come. The confidence that the "forest will come" is reminiscent of both ancient prophecy and that language of television commercials which somehow capture the religiosity of modern times: this ancient is modern trick is common in Herbert. Note also his lack of punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert recalls the most ancient pre-Socratic philosophers and simultaneously...