Word: purest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rival those of Elvis and the Beatles, and to many ears the Mariah sound has grown indistinguishable from the endless cosmetics aisles and multiplexes of our postmodern world. But there's no pot of gold at the end of Rainbow. The album strips that sound down to its purest form, cleverly obfuscating Mariah's predictably smarmy lyrics with sonorous mumblings, so that we can clasp Mariah's vocal range to our hearts without having to trouble with the language. Trouble is, "Always be My Baby" is exactly what you'll be expecting after a few minutes of listening, as Rainbow...
People like me are supposed to disdain campaign ads as simplistic and demagogic. But these ads reflect a campaign's efforts to distill its themes into the purest form. And why not? It's where the lion's share of the budget is going. Watch these ads, and they'll tell you exactly what these campaigns most hope--and fear...
...this allows him to be, at times, the only one who is fully aware of what is at stake in their struggle. French actor Lionel Abelanski is blessed with an endearing face and he plays Shlomo in a heartbreakingly sincere manner. He is one of the movie's purest delights and illusions...
...Josh Oppenheim's paper suggests that today's graffiti is a return to the purest form of artistic expression--sketches and scribbles on cave walls. Oppenheim's paper quotes a graffiti artist who claims that "the art on the streets are the real life galleries." The most basic expression of anger and pride may well come from the streets, but can the rest of us understand them? The paper also quotes ethnologist Robert Colombo as saying, "After reading kilometers of walls one realizes that, whatever its meaning, here is what it means to be human." Can we look past...
...What does this mean for the Linux community, an informal, international fellowship of benevolent hackers who since 1991 have labored unpaid to develop the perfect microcomputer operating system? Until now, they've done it for the purest of motives ? because it was fun, and because it was useful. Now unexpected success has brought other motives into play, and nobody seems quite sure how to deal with them. MORE...