Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taste in 1909), heavy claustrophobic patterning and leaden light, it is a sinister painting, like a Vuillard whose domestic narrative has gone wrong. It isn't surprising to learn that Sickert was interested in the story of Jack the Ripper. But the truly bizarre twist was the rumor that sprang up 20 years after Sickert's death -- that he actually was the Ripper himself. Alas, there is no evidence for this bit of urban mythology...
...prominent. In a country that despises losers, the biggest loser of all is perhaps the weak brother who is made even weaker by his brother's success. At the same time, Americans want their leaders to be godlike but still connected to the soil from which they sprang; so it is psychologically useful if the President is a colossus but his brother has feet of clay...
...from CompuServe and other computer networks (a $15 contribution for the programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...
...hatred seems ironic in a people steeped in the unifying belief that they are all descended from one man: the mythical founder Samaale. From him sprang a vast genealogical tree of clans that form the basis of the social system. Somalis still pride themselves on their ability to recite their clan histories for generations back. But a divisiveness has infected them since ancient times, when rival groups laid claim to the same wells and grazing lands...
Instead of realizing that he benefited from the climate of corporate turmoil that was due to the policies (or lack thereof) of the government, he is eating the pumpkin and killing the horses out of spite for the society from which they sprang. There is, however, one key difference lost in transition to the modern world: Cinderella always believed in a better...