Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grew up," Agee says, "anybody that was in any authority was white. It was frustrating. We'd get a white politician that would come in and promise everything, and then when they won, they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person...
...Paradiso" is the most complete song on "Passion." After an initial burst of conga drums, Adjaffi switches effortlessly from an up-beat reggae rhythm to a soft ballad...
...rest of the album features similarly soft, peaceful love songs in which Adjaffi proves that he has a great deal of talent. But Adjaffi falters when he tries too hard to seem political or to write deeply meaningful lyrics. Instead, he shines when he simply sings about his experiences and his passions...
...citizen. The issue is why we as a nation are so willing to accept a means of punishment that falls under the definition of torture. Michael Fay may rightly deserve four months in prison. He may rightly deserve to pay a $2,000 fine. Yet it's not being "soft" to protest against his caning, a punishment that allows the government of Singapore to continue torturing its citizens without reprisals from the rest of the international community...
...faceless goons (the Icelandic hockey players in D2 are outfitted like S&M Darth Vaders). If the movie is a sequel and stars one of Martin Sheen's sons (Charlie Sheen in the easy-to-take Major League II, Emilio Estevez in the noisome D2), the hero will go soft until he rediscovers the heart and guts he needs to be a man again. His team will lose early and win late, fall behind and catch up. The good guys win, to an orchestral crescendo (Rudy, for example, is a symphony with a movie attached). They are carried...