Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Staying Here With You," the band prefaced Time Out Of Mind's "Cold Irons Bound" with ominous swirls of electric guitar, giving the live version of that song the same dark, brooding quality exhibited on the album. Two more songs passed before Dylan closed out the first portion of his set with a hard-driving "Silvio," unleashing his band and raising the intensity yet a few notches more. The lights dimmed, as they did after every song, and when they came back on, Dylan had replaced his electric guitar with an acoustic. The band followed suit, with the bassist picking...
...This Long Disease," Holub calls our attention to the "importance" of retroviruses, which integrate their genetic code into the chromosomes of the hosts they invade. Scientists believe that a large portion of our chromosomes is composed of such retrovirus DNA--what the body recognizes as "other" has, through evolution, been incorporated into who we are. When we place this fact in the context of Holub's other essays, many of which deal with the injustice of social exclusion and persecution, it acquires a powerfully political resonance. While hardly an apologist for disease, Holub uses the analogy to suggest that...
IANA administrates top-level domains (TLDs), the right-most portion of an Internet domain name. Each TLD, such as .com, .us and .edu, is assigned to a unique organization, which can subsequently assign lower-level domain names...
...most elaborate part of the set was a cylindrical platform which hung from supports above the stage and lifted Puff Daddy into the air carrying him over various portions of the audience. However, Puff Daddy used this contraption only briefly during the show when he had a contest to see which section of the Centrum was the loudest. For nearly 15 minutes Puffy hovered above the crowd asking fans stage left, center and right to scream as loud as they could. Having declared that the audience was the loudest he had ever seen, Puff Daddy had all of his fans...
...variety, though, is still missing, at least from her live show. Until she is able to throw off some of the excessive restraint exhibited at the Paradise, Hatfield will be unable to communicate fully with her listeners. She gave the impression that she was putting forth only a small portion of what she had to offer, and a little more would go a long...