Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the pieces, granted, aren't as sharp as they could have been. But for the most part, Stewart grabs eclectic tidbits from today's headlines or society pages and sculpts them into tales so insanely far-fetched that you only wish they were real. One of the best in the entire collection, "Vincent and Theo on AOL," follows Van Gogh through a series of internet chat rooms...
Which is a damn shame, because rap has always made the musical world far more interesting, not only through its sharp, well engineered sounds, but also by the way it has always thumbed its nose at the conventional standards of society. While the ideas that gangsta rap preaches, such as cop killing, are far from condonable, they are presented with such obvious showmanship that ultimately the music is simply a harmless, creative outlet. Although gangsta rap is clearly fading, there are still several bright spots remaining, one being the West Coast trio of Cypress Hill...
...sound is continually expanding and evolving. One need look no further then their eclectic blend of songs, from the pulse-pounding base tempos of "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That," to the dark ruminations of "Lick A Shot," to the eerie ghost wails of "Stoned Raiders," to the sharp-edged anger of "No Rest For the Wicked...
...junta, supporters believe the prosperity and stability Pinochet brought to Chile justified his means. "Divisions over his legacy had softened in recent years as society reconciled itself to a post-Pinochet era in which he was immune from prosecution," says Padgett. "But his arrest has reopened the sharp ideological divisions, making the country more difficult to govern...
Your article was totally one-sided and heavily antilogging. I find the statement that "a clear-cut leaves a sharp demarcation line between a woodland full of life and a biological ruin" complete nonsense. As a hunter, I know that the place in a forest to find the largest concentration of all manner of critters is in the regrowth that occurs in burns and clear-cuts. Inasmuch as we seldom let fire do its work in the forest, we are probably doing diversity a favor by selective logging and clear-cutting! DALE ROSS Ashland...