Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first blush, the veterans have a point. The United States declared war on Japan only after the gruesome bloodshed at Pearl Harbor. Japanese kamikazes--the Hamas car-bombers of the forties--wreaked havoc on American servicemen at sea. The Japanese frequently defied international law in torturing American POWs...
...issue, then at least administrators should focus their efforts on shortening the length of reading period. If students here are suffering from a lack of discipline in their studying and a serious procrastination dilemma, the Harvard has to step in at some point before its students add ordering the pearl necklace from the Home Shopping Network and road trips to Europe to their "must-do-because-we-have-two-weeks-of-time-at-Harvard-where-we-really-don't-have-to-do-anything" list...
...Music: Pearl Jam's expert mix of power and melody...
...mortality; the difficulties that come with living in the public eye. The album has its share of stinkers -- the accordion-driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable...
...this is not for you/ Never was for you." As it is, the world is already full of too many people who want to keep only with their own kind. Do hipper-than-thou Seattle rock bands now share the sentiment? When a group is as good as Pearl Jam, it's too bad everyone isn't invited to listen...