Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media] has a lot more power than heseemed willing to acknowledge," Scott said...
...While her last book, The Silent Woman, used the controversy over the death and estate of the suicide poet Sylvia Plath to illuminate brilliantly these questions of authority, here the justice system becomes her battleground; lawyers dispute not over matters of law but something more beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth. The lit-crit quibbling of this approach at times quickly becomes tedious. Still, these cerebral arguments pale beside Malcolm's acute character studies, little gems of quirk and nuance like an eccentric bolo tie on a dreary elderly gentleman that leavens the confusion...
...drummer Tony Fagenson, bravely faced a bitter crowd and apologized for Collins' sickness and promised to redeem all tickets for passes to their April 20 show at either Karma or the Avalon. They then introduced Marvelous3 as "the greatest live band around," a compliment that this Atlanta-based power pop trio live...
...Zuko. Appearances are often deceiving, but in this instance Walker's countenance is as paradoxical as the refreshing blend of peppy lyrics and heavy riffs of Hey! Album, the major label debut of Marvelous3. The album has a surprisingly crisp sound, despite the apparent dichotomy between the band's power instrumentals and unabashedly poppy lyrics and up-beat vocals. For three guys with names like Butch and Slug who try very hard to look dark and disturbed, their music is often as light as a puffy cumulous cloud. The rhymes are often forced, thin and cheesy, but that does...
...outermost rectangle is a beautiful tangling of vines, leaves and a flower. Within it lies a smaller rectangle of delicate swirls, lines and curves so fine and perfect they must have been inspired by a higher power. And inside that rectangle, one finds another exquisite border of grapes and birds, framing the central focus of the painting, Emperor Akbar and Gosain Jadrup...