Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rude awakening. Indeed, the next fall, I came across an interview of Ellison conducted in 1955, which focused mostly on Invisible Man. The interviewers did not beat around the bush...
Sophomore tailback Chuck Nwokocha got a rude introduction to the rigors of carrying virtually a team's entire load out of the tailback position...
...makeovers are about surface; bleached hair has dark roots. Skin's polite production might win listeners, but Love's displays of rude beauty, of a sad radiance that seems to come from a place beyond contrivance--those are the moments that make this CD spectacular listening. Just hear her morose, lyrical ramble over Erlandson's spare guitar on Northern Star; or the line in the enchanting Malibu when she breaks the song's sweet spell, growling, "And I knew/ Love would tear you apart/ Oh and I knew/ The darkest secret of your heart." This CD has pop skin...
Talk about a rude awakening. just a few weeks ago, France was riding high on the strength of its surprise win over Brazil in the World Cup. Then came the Tour de France--or, as some bicycling fans are calling it, the Tour des Drugs--which limped to a finish last week under a deepening cloud. Five cyclists and team officials have been placed under formal investigation for using or helping riders to use artificial substances to boost their performance. As the police widened their probe, a Dutch team and all four Spanish teams indignantly quit the race...
...Karen Sisco ever got hired as a marshal, and how she retains her job, is an utter mystery. She is a flippant smart-aleck who's rude to her boss as she single-mindedly pursues her own unorthodox goals on the job (sound like any of this summers other bigscreen federal agents?). Worse, her goals usually have to do with her personal life; several references to her earlier personal life suggest that Sisco uses her job as a social club...