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...though we tried to avoid it, it happened over the course of those two hectic months in Rome that my roommate and I, two open music snobs, cut off from all sources of new music (save MTV), became completely sympathetic to the arguments in favor of bad pop and established our eternal patronage to a single song that forever in my mind will come to define summer...
...black-and-white thinking. (On many political blogs, if there's one thing worse than an enemy, it's an ally who's not ideologically pure enough.) Yet it also makes for a kind of happy apartheid. You know that my naive ideas will lead America to crumble like Rome, and I know that morons like you are going to get me killed by a dirty bomb, but we never need to actually say a cross word to each other. Or anything at all, for that matter...
...salient lesson for our time, as the threats we face are not yet massive enough to draw our undivided attention. While the Turks were still raiding the Anatolian steppe, few, if any, Europeans would ever have guessed that not only would they eventually conquer the “Second Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they would come within a hairs breadth of conquering Europe itself. Few realize how close the Turks came to breaking into the very heart of Europe. If it was not for the arrival of Jan Sobieski...
...five-minute walk from Shibuya train station. The area is crammed with LP stores, ranging from the hip-hop specialist Dance Music Record (www.dmr.co.jp) to purveyors of the unusual, such as Yellow Pop (www.yellowpop.jp) whose stocks include decades-old Japanese Rakugo (spoken-comedy records) and sporting-event pressings. ROME Goody Music is Rome's best-stocked vinyl venue. Located on Via Cesare Beccaria, the store has catered to platter fiends for over 25 years. The shop carries mainly house, hip-hop and soul, and twice a week hosts a DJ school. "Somebody walks in here, and when he leaves...
...black-and-white thinking. (On many political blogs, if there's one thing worse than an enemy, it's an ally who's not ideologically pure enough.) Yet it also makes for a kind of happy apartheid. You know that my naive ideas will lead America to crumble like Rome, and I know that morons like you are going to get me killed by a dirty bomb, but we never need to actually say a cross word to each other. Or anything at all, for that matter...