Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strenuously to any such assertion when interviewers made it; its true that none of these bands sound much like the Raincoats, and it's also true that even talking about some kind of rock "ecriture feminine" risks shunting all the bands under discussion off into a kind of sidekick phenomenon, making them seem to be "out of the mainstream" of (male-led) rock bands (like, say, Pavement). For that reason I considered not mentioning the Scrawl similarity in this review at all, and even omitting the (interesting, to me) fact that Slant 6 is an all-female band...
Nuland writes about death with unsentimental passion. In an opening episode -- which squeamish readers may find hard to get through without wincing -- he describes his first professional encounter with the phenomenon. As a third- year medical student, he was checking on a 52-year-old male who had entered the hospital with chest pains when the patient suddenly had a massive, life- ending heart attack. In a state of preternatural calm, Nuland responded as his training had taught him: he grabbed a scalpel and scissors, cut open the man's chest and began massaging the still twitching heart. The organ...
...mistaken if they think the literature faculty currently in their thirties and forties are the best America has to offer. Not one was chosen strictly for scholarly accomplishment. Not one came to Harvard through honest means. They are without exception products of the cliquish conference circuit, a crassly commercial phenomenon that arose in the Seventies, as a result of the recession. Their work, under its hip varnish, is shoddy and shallow...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...
...know it's a common phenomenon that, for example, authors of successful first books will then develop writers' block...