Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quavering intimacy pop standards associated with Billie Holiday (Gloomy Sunday), Peggy Lee (Why Don't You Do Right?), Sarah Vaughan (Black Coffee), even Doris Day (Secret Love). And she's not bad. O'Connor can exasperate on her new album, Am I Not Your Girl? -- she wails this phrase 26 times in one song and closes the set with a dark harangue against the Roman Catholic clergy. But these assaults are familiar. The surprise is that her voice and attitude are true to the torchy material, notably a definitive Don't Cry for Me Argentina. As the publican might...
Although we appreciate this new spirit of glasnost emerging from Mass Hall, it seems that Shattuck's letter, to borrow a phrase, may rest on a misunderstanding about the University's position...
...popular historian of the United States, John Fiske, coined the phrase the "Critical Period" to describe the era of political and economic turbulence that characterized the individual states between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and the ratification of the Constitution in 1788. And while historians continue to debate just how critical it was for Americans to supplant the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution, there can be no doubt that South Africa, a country struggling to write a new constitution, now faces its own critical period...
Enunciating each phrase perfectly, Freed explained why his team was able to defeat Villanova, Iona and Boston College: "We played very well together. We were communicating. We played good defense. I think we are definitely a better team [after the weekend...
...M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow published an influential book called The Zero-Sum Society. This became a notorious phrase. Thurow's critics, mostly conservative, accused him of suggesting that the American economy could not change or grow. Thurow's point was, rather, that at any given moment society's resourcesTIME