Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several well-done songs, while the rest of the album is mushed together in a string of undistinguished melodies and choruses. For example, the songs "Close" and "No Time for Waiting" are both extremely reminiscent of Broadway ballads. Although "Close" has a grabbing opening guitar line, it soon is overtaken by whininess and sounds too much like it should be sung on the Great White Way, not at a grunge concert. "No Time for Waiting" also feels like a showtune--it is too cartoonish, with no reality to its emotions. Perhaps these two songs would fare well as inspirational (read...
Following closely at its heels, however, is the recently surging Clarkson squad. Despite the ravaging ice storms which have overtaken much of the upstate New York area, the Golden Knights have rebounded from a disappointing 0-2 start, with wins in eight of their last 10 contests. The burst has moved Clarkson into the league's second-place slot, trailing Yale by a mere three points. Mark Morris' squad could steal the top spot this coming weekend with a pair of wins and a Yale loss. Unfortunately for Clarkson, that feat may prove to be difficult considering that it must...
...have to wonder about the state of mind of the already successful people who lie when they know how easy it is to be tripped up. Are they self-loathers who want to bring themselves down, knowing they would get found out sooner or later anyway? Or are they overtaken by grandiosity, the need to be at the center of their own melodrama? Former Cabinet member Robert Reich didn't make things up until he left office. But then he packed his memoirs with numerous vivid scenes, including a Congressman jumping up and down screaming and an attack by cigar...
...desire for more of it, figured in the decision should startle few people. But the profit motive does not fully explain the reasoning behind the new Joy. A number of experts feel that the 1975 version, published when Gerald Ford was in the White House, has been overtaken and outdated by contemporary events. "That was the era of Linus Pauling and vitamin C and the common cold," says Marion Nestle, chairman of the department of nutrition at New York University and a Joy contributor. "Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet had just come out, emphasizing...
...antisocial behavior--are acting responsibly. Ever since Waco, it turns out, some militia leaders have been working secretly with the FBI to ease tensions between the feds and groups like the Republic of Texas, whose standoff this month ended without a conflagration. Even the once radical N.R.A. was overtaken by forces of moderation at its national convention. What's an angry white male...