Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he is not smoking pot, drinking and "getting laid," Maushard manages to scratch the surface of a Nicaraguan culture scarred by civil war. The people he encounters and the protests he witnesses produce an unsettling ambiguity about who is the hero and who the villain in the jumble of Nicaraguan society...
...luster without abandoning its heritage: a heritage so stubbornly rooted in storytelling and simple melody that it has never quite left behind the farm in Poor Valley, Va., where a moody lumberman named A.P. Carter and his clan picked up guitars seven decades ago and invented the Carter Scratch. The new wave of country singers is dominated by artists who have succeeded largely on their own terms, consolidating an eclectic mix of contemporary sounds with old-fashioned catches in the throat, tinkles of the mandolin, sugary sobs and vertiginous swoops of pedal steel guitar. This generation's performers...
...Union. Russia needs help in creating and solidifying the institutions essential to a stable democracy, from functioning financial operations to an independent judiciary, a coherent parliamentary system and wholesale and retail markets. Virtually none of these pillars of the Western life-style exist in Russia; reformers are starting from scratch...
When they returned to Germany to try to restore what they had been forced to abandon 23 years earlier, they had to start from scratch all over again...
...only afternoon television, then people will care, in a slack- jawed way, whether Bill was unfaithful to Hillary with Gennifer. It is the kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...