Word: sad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very sad and telling that Noah construed it as an attack on him," she says...
Last May the North American Securities Administrators Association cited viatical scams as one of the country's top 10 financial cons. "I like a lot of people in this industry, but I don't trust a lot of them, and that's sad," says Carole Fiedler, of Sausalito, Calif., an established viatical broker who each year helps about 100 people find buyers for their policies. "I hope there's a weeding-out process...
...Yale College was founded on a small patch of besieged inner-countryside land, thus launching a tradition of proud inferiority that has thrived for nearly 300 years. Tomorrow, on the playing fields of the Yale Bowl, sad Yale College will once again affirm that tradition by treating the assembled crowds to a well-orchestrated display of athletic incompetence. We here at Harvard would like to take this moment to pay tribute to our amiable friends to the south, who for so long, have graciously accepted their status as a lesser University...
...that the Big Top is essentially all about "love and compliance." There seems to be some sort of grand metaphor here, but DiFranco never clues us in. It's easy to skip over a song that squeals "And some of the clowns are happy/And some of the clowns are sad." Whatever you say, Ani. Many listeners may be confused and unsettled by the juxtaposition of extended clown analogies with aching accusations against pro-life violence. But if you simply cannot get enough of lyrical fickleness, then there is none higher than DiFranco...
...that steadily increased in energy. Opening with "Tommy Gun Angel" and featuring "Walking Stick Man" and "Datura," they finally broke out the rock with a fine version of "Again." Unfortunately, the end of that song, occurred at 12:30a.m., closing time at the Middle East. So it was sad that at the pinnacle of energy for the show, it all came to a stop--a big disappointment for both an energetic band and the audience that came to see them...