Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dresses then folk singer Ben Harper would be a diva. They're not. But Harper is still one of the most evocative and poignant vocalists alive today. Changing guitars from Weissenborn to Martin and back again during last Tuesday's concert at the Avalon, Harper has enough talent to quench any false belief that the parade of over ten exotically-shaped stringed instruments was proffered as compensation or distraction for lackluster performance ability...
...woman who graduated from Harvard with a degree in English, the one hour each day on the subway spent reading Proust didn't quite quench her still-burning love for literature...
...reading, writing and generally appreciating poetry. I asked a number of people in the Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight in Kosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. The Serb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks on the fields...
...reading, writing and generally appreciating poetry. I asked a number of people in the Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight inKosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. TheSerb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks on the fields of Kosovo...
...jumped at the opportunity. Among the authors the companies chose for the launching of the new cooperative enterprise: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Elmore Leonard and Lisa Scottoline. Diet Coke now hopes you'll be the first to collect all six. As for the publishers, they hope you'll want to quench your thirst for more and go buy the real thing -- the books themselves...