Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents that allow it." A child from a prominent family has a beer-and-booze party in the backyard while Mom and Dad are not home. There is the boy who dived into drugs and death threats and knives last year after his good friend died, the boy's soft, slashed wrist a souvenir of his journey through grief. He keeps in his planner the business cards of the hospitals that have treated...
...details of harpooning and coffin-shaped beds, but also into bloodshed and delirium and diabolism. "Blast winds! and spank these sails as though they were the flanks of horses," cries her Ahab, and we shiver anew as we recall that, one paragraph earlier, Una has found in him a "soft glowing...
...high point came in Los Angeles on Wednesday, when Gore landed the endorsement of the 13 million-member AFL-CIO--a labor machine that can give his campaign soft money, vote-pulling muscle and 200 organizers in Iowa alone--it wasn't the only one. That night in Seattle, after the Senate shot down the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Gore tried to build momentum by staying up late to write, edit and star in a TV spot in which he pledged that his first act as President would be to send the treaty back to the Senate. That...
Black on Black, their new Re-Entry Records release, is plagued by songs which are too slow and too soft. Instead of featuring pounding beats and passionate, driving guitar chords, the tracks on this album are dominated by vocals that are uninteresting and with lyrics which are average at best. The guitar, drums and bass are mixed low in favor of these vocals, which are often made worse by harmonizing more vocals over the original ones. Some tracks from Black on Black, like "Dangerous" and "Sweat," begin promisingly with good guitar intros, but ultimately deteriorate into the predictability and mediocrity...
...Democratic congressional candidates Tuesday night, President Clinton lashed out at the Senate vote as a "victory for the politics of cynicism." But with contributions to the parties for the 2000 election expected to reach $550 million - double the figure for the last election - the smart money is on soft money...