Word: pleasants
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...loved telling stories, you liked exploring those cultural nooks? Were there other careers you wanted to pursue? NC: I went to art school and I studied sculpture. I had an epiphany of sorts when I had a little show and everybody came and they drank wine. It was a pleasant evening but I realized that the work wasn’t communicating everything that had gone into the making of it. It wasn’t the most potent form of communication for me. I got a little video camera and I started making really bad short films. I recognize...
This is not to say that the album is completely worthless, or that there is nothing to Crow’s attempts to reshape her sound. In its Mann-liness lies possibility, and most of the tunes have some underlying musical accompaniment that makes them pleasant enough in the background...
Five hundred years ago, the Buddha taught his followers that unhappiness derives from the incessant habits of judging every experience as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral and of trying to hold on to the pleasant ones while shunning the unpleasant...
...quite warm in the cinema and you get to watch something that’s hopefully a little unusual. It’s a fantasy. It’s got flying fish in it, it’s got sphinxes in it, and hopefully it’s a pleasant diversion from studies. I can’t oversell this thing, I guess...
...asked. Startled, they shook their heads no. He continued. Though he had been trained in King’s nonviolence methods, Vietnam radicalized Perkins. Just as he was about to join Black Power, Perkins said, he had a change of heart and got married instead. The marriage lasted 30 pleasant years; when it ended, he said, he turned to alcoholism. Now he lived among Birmingham’s vast homeless population, at that moment some of the only people outdoors...