Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well the thing about it is, I don't tend to like to play real hard so in the beginning there were times where I could be overpowered a little bit just by the sheer funk of their playing. You know here I am with an acoustic banjo and the amplifying system is less than perfect still, so I couldn't get up over them, but as time has gone on I've grown stronger and they've grown more sensitive, I think. Somehow we've learned how to make it work together, we know when to hit it hard...
...Army and Husker Dus's Land Speed Record, many early '80s punk rockers were hostile to Bad Religion simply because the band dared to cut melodious punk songs. And while the melody lines of early Bad Religion tunes were subsumed in chunky drum work, deliciously mediocre production and sheer velocity, the punk rock world complained that the band simply wasn't playing the things that it should...
...Over. When they emerge blinking with stupefaction from this warm and cuddly narrative of domestic tranquility, they'll be begging for gratuitous blood-letting. If tragedy enthralls us with its cathartic resonance, and comedy with the pleasure of averted tragedy, then Colwin must have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid, elegant prose until you're blue in the face, but A Big Storm Knocked It Over constitutes the acid-proof proof that happy stories about happy people...
...world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith in the future; it does not capture the reader's imagination. Colwin's book barely engages the reader at all. To her credit, the sheer cozy vapidity of her work generates a vaguely uplifting feeling in the end. After 259 insipid pages, the reader deserves more...
...sheer convenience of mutual funds makes them attractive to almost anyone. "If you have $100,000 to invest, it's not easy to track it closely every day," says Barb Wiener, a homemaker in Irvine, California, who uses a computer to manage her family's finances. "You choose a couple of mutual funds, and you only have to look two or three places to keep track of how well you're doing." All told, 1 in 4 Americans owns mutual funds directly or through group plans; half the families have incomes of less than $50,000, making funds the primary...