Word: primally
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...with his success. Frequently, Carrabba--who goes by the stage name Dashboard Confessional--doesn't even sing during his performances. He just strums an acoustic guitar while the audience of mostly middle-class white kids shouts every word of his desperate, heartbroken lyrics in a sort of primal-scream karaoke. "It's almost cultlike," says Carrabba of his fans' spooky intensity. "I know they're endearing songs, but there are a lot of endearing songs...
...watershed. Elizabeth would never try to touch people on the primal level Diana reached, but she recognized times had changed. No one expects an instinctively conservative woman in her seventies to overhaul radically her job of 50 years, which leaves those who want to reform or abolish it in an awkward fix. The Jubilee has prompted various suggestions for change: among them, that she should retire and that a system for picking an elected president be devised. But the republicans have no real leverage. For all its vicissitudes, the monarchy remains shockingly popular-70% prefer it over a republic...
...meeting packed with business, the council also passed a bill allocating $2,500 in Harvard University Dining Services vouchers for a “Primal Feast” to accompany the traditional pre-exam “Primal Scream...
...gold digger who's already a little tired of the priapic effect she has on men. McKinney, though her signature character is frequently described as a child-woman, didn't play at being a grown-up. She was one: born to be, doomed to be. She embodied the primal w-o-m-a-n: Eve, Jezebel and her own creamy self...
...live my own life. "On the movie's terms, this is only an imitation of life, a sham citizenship, and Peola will pay for it. After Delilah dies, of a broken heart, Peola appears at the funeral and, in one of the cinema's primal weepie tropes, throws herself at the casket. Perhaps we are meant to find Peola guilty of matricide. But in Washington's mien and method, we can't help sympathizing with her impulse. Her mother was the stay-back past of black polity; she is the get-going future...