Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Electronica is Madonna's ideal realm. Her shallow pop seemed to float without foundation in her previous albums. Every time she tried to be "innovative" or "groundbreaking," it all turned into another exercise in pleasing the Top 40 crowd. The songs on Ray of Light are built around producer William Orbit's spectacular backgrounds: synthesizers illuminate the music with pseudo-stars, comets, flowing rivers, and gurgling heavenly blips. "Sky Fits Heaven," for instance, would be a dismally boring song without the lightly pulsating background that perfectly matches the song's lyrics...
...Meanwhile, Guns N' Roses added some sin to the power ballad with the more violent "Sweet Child O' Mine" though keeping the music loud and clear. In 1989, Bad English, led by a former Journey member, gave us the masterful "When I See You Smile," and Roxette released the shallow yet potent "Listen to Your Heart...
Technically, the landslides that hit Laguna Beach, Loma Mar and Rio Nido are known as debris flows. These are shallow slides that involve only the top layer of soil and usually occur during rainstorms. Debris flows are dangerous; they can run at speeds as high as 40 m.p.h., far faster than a person can run. Fortunately, most debris flows funnel through fairly narrow channels, and so the damage they inflict is limited. But Californians are at risk for a second type of slide, which the U.S. Geological Survey's David Howell refers to as a "bedrock landslide." Such deep-seated...
Most people show their brilliance in reluctant flashes. It's almost as if they're afraid to get into intellectual discourse, afraid to show what they think, what they know, what they feel. I'm frustrated with shallow conversations because I've seen a few of those flashes, those little examples of openness between people, and I know that my peers can do so much better...
...with meaning rather than pageantry, student leaders must harness the diverse resources of students into coalitions that can act on issues of broader social significance even as they individually engage in group-specific concerns. Let us be alert now rather than allow the doctrine of "pragmatism" to become a shallow cover-up for political dormancy...