Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's MSA chose to show its support of affirmative action in quieter ways...
...know--I think we have a pretty good rep. I think we could have kicked a lot more ass than we have, but I'm very different [from] my other siblings. I lead a much personal, quieter, life style than they do. I'm not married to a celebrity or anything like that, and I don't live in New York or Los Angeles. I live outside those major cities...
...Quieter but even more arresting is "Electric Light," in which an electric organ at the lowest possible pitch substitutes for a flickering neon sign, illuminating and concealing the body of a female lover at regular intervals. The music never changes, and Harvey just watches, confessing that "she tears my heart out, every time." In the last verse, her voice lilts to a high, thin whisper as though all oxygen had run out of the room; the counterpoint to the neon drone bewitches, and Harvey, ever economical, stops the track early before the moment could be lost...
...Whoopi Goldberg pontificated about Monica Lewinsky and Roseanne interviewed a tiresome Linda Tripp impersonator. But Roseanne and Goldberg's conversation with three teenage mothers was surprisingly simple and affecting. Roseanne's emotions are not polished to an Oprah-like smoothness, and she can be appealingly authentic, in her rare quieter moments...
Last week's turmoil on Wall Street was the latest in a summer-long slide that has knocked almost 740 points, or nearly 8%, off the Dow index since July 17, a decline that economists call a correction. (A 20% drop signals a "bear market.") But a deeper and quieter sort of stock decline has been under way much longer, particularly among smaller companies. For example, the Russell 2000 Index of small-capitalization stocks has fallen nearly 5% since January. Investors have been seeing these declines for some months in their brokerage statements. So as they survey the carnage...