Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Longfellow] hated whatever tyrannized the human spirit--including slavery," Blandford says...
...print was shockingly critical of the text, but it let stand without objection the Declaration's grandest statement: "Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works." Half a millennium of strife is not instantly undone; last week's participants, unlike the Regensburgers, didn't imagine they were reuniting the church. But the Declaration does preserve faint hopes of such a reunion...
...reclaim the brash, bratty sense of self-control that psychologists claim girls lose just before puberty. And in many ways, the movement succeeded, as any fan of Sleater-Kinney and even the Spice Girls will tell you. But even in the world of pop music, with the spirit of girl power behind it, the concept of feminism is often misapplied. Look how the label is tossed about: female singers like Meredith Brooks and Alanis Morissette are installed as icons of woman power (alongside real artist-activists like Tori Amos) simply because they sing about bad moods or boyfriends who have...
This side of Ray's activity is cognate with the spirit of '70s conceptual art--its fondness for solemnly carrying out small, meaningless activities, for loading with importance gestures that didn't mean beans so as to criticize the "importance" assigned to artmaking itself. His earliest work was, in fact, done in the '70s, and it produced a number of hybrids of minimal and performance art. Often they involved the prototypical Minimalist cube, with Ray inside it and some parts of him sticking out--a box with a clockface, for example, its hands moved by the artist, whose legs hang...
...front, singer-actress Brandy and fellow teen phenom Monica duke it out for love in their No. 1 duet, The Boy Is Mine--and in the video version, join in alliance to show up a two-timing boyfriend. But the words of singer Fiona Apple best capture the grrrl spirit, "It's a sad sad world/ when a girl will break a boy/ Just because...