Word: reflexive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duran Duran is the incarnation of "epic theater" in the musical world. They have always given us the visual and aural ecstasy that we require, while sacrificing the drama and the meaning (although songs such as "The Reflex" have been known to mean a lot to a lot of people). This aesthetic is upheld in Medazzaland...
...remember that this is Duran Duran, and at on time you, too, bought Seven and the Ragged Tiger (what!) and inanely chanted the lyrics to "The Reflex?" And what do they mean? Medazzaland may not be a wonderful album, but it brings back the element of carefree fun and musical freedom not "to mean" or "to change" that is so lacking in today's Billboard charts (expect for Aqua's "Barbie Girl"). Duran Duran exists because we have always needed Duran Duran to exist, to take us away from the omnipresent ideal of music as a form of self-expression...
Berde determined that Alex did indeed have reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a condition in which pain originates from an abnormality in the nerves. In Alex's case, it was due to hyperactivation of nerves running from the spinal cord to the limbs. Alex's legs became hypersensitive to the slightest touch, and they turned blue with cold, for no apparent reason. The cause of the disorder cannot always be determined. It often follows an injury, but Alex's case might have been triggered by a mysterious viral illness. Untreated, the condition can lead to loss of muscle and bone and even...
...would be a lot to ask people to calmly ride out one or two of these revolutions without getting anxious; we are facing four at once, and so maybe it's a natural reflex to change the locks or build a fence, to sort through values and valuables for the ones most worth hanging on to. The evidence suggests that all this change is making Americans more conservative, not so much politically as psychically, sending them back to church or into bookstores looking for volumes about how to live an authentic life--making them garden and recycle and learn yoga...
...relationship, Simpson maintained, with the exception of a single incident on New Year's Eve in 1989. Of the other encounters introduced by the plaintiffs, such as when Nicole called 911 in 1993 after Simpson kicked down an exterior door in her home, Simpson was dismissive: "It was a reflex action...