Word: pushing
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...plays, shows, games. The kids will say you don't need to come, but you do. It reinforces the importance of school." Just as important, he says, is keeping the day-to-day dialogue going, no matter how reluctant a child might seem. Teenagers, in particular, will seem to push the parent away. "Don't stop when your kid rejects you. Ask to see their papers and exams. The initial response to questions like 'What happened at school today?' may be 'Nothing.' You have to be persistent. School is a very important part of their lives...
...charges. Kendall also went further. Transcripts of the Tripp tapes show that Tripp urged Lewinsky not to sign her Jones-case affidavit, the one denying sex with Clinton, until Jordan had found her a job. Kendall suggests that Starr, to trap the President, may have prompted Tripp to push that idea on Lewinsky. Tripp's grand jury testimony also discloses that she began cooperating closely with Jones' lawyers as early as November. By January she had already provided so much information, sources told TIME, that Jones' lawyers spent only 20 minutes with her when they went to her house...
...just possible, however, that this last situation may change. In Barcelona a movement is stirring among the city's Catholic hierarchy to push for the beatification and eventual canonization of Antoni Gaudi I Cornet (1852-1926), designer of the unfinished church of the Sagrada Famolia and the greatest architect that Barcelona, or Spain itself, has ever produced. Back in 1992, the auxiliary bishop of Barcelona, Joan Carrera, called the beatification move "a legitimate and reasonable proposal." In a pastoral letter last Aug. 23, Ricard Maria Cardinal Carles declared his intent to begin the long and labyrinthine process toward beatifying...
...never separates Soul Coughing from their true style; rather, the widely disparate influences evident on the album are exactly what Soul Coughing needed to gracefully mature from experimenters to true innovators. Soul Coughing finally take full advantage of overdubbing techniques they hesitantly used on their two previous albums to push their music into a realm where electronica, funk, distorted double-voiced lyrics, whistles, duck quacks, heavy bass, strings, weird speakers, guitars and classical piano merge into a miraculous synthesis of noise, beats and poetry. One of the best songs on the album, "Misinformed," opens with funky low toms accented...
...What's so funny about it is howludicrous a notion it is. Writers, with rareexceptions, are never recognized, and work in thistruly sociopathic, insular world--a world in whichyour emotional life hinges on some adjectivalphrase, whether it's pulled off or not, for weekson end, it may just push you into some horrible ofdepression--that's certainly not the life of atrue celebrity...