Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...braggadocio and self-references that make contemporary rap such flamboyant entertaining falls flat here. It is difficult to distinguish the three group members except that they all fall off rhythm. As a result, the majority of the tracks on the album resemble each other too closely. Two tracks stood out, mainly because they resembled other artists' work. Anyone who heard Missy Elliott's summer release will be furious upon hearing C. O. G.'s futuristic "Intro." But if nothing else, C. O. G. has a good sense of what they should be. Indeed, they have most of what it takes...
...What Vicky likes most is the camaraderie on the job with other employees and Lowell students. "People come back and visit after they graduate; some stay on in the Senior Common Room. I remember most of them." One afternoon, a woman walked in and when Vicky saw her, she stood up, walked around her desk and the two women embraced for almost a minute. Vicky said, "That was Mrs. Bossert, the former master. She's special. There's a word for it. They were open. She used to bake everything herself for Thursday tea. She started early Wednesday...
...bells on the door jangled loudly as the door slammed behind us. A glass case heaping with cookies, pastries and pies stood in front of the balding clerk...
Ironic, isn't it? Ten years after the Berlin Wall came crashing down, the vision it stood for is being recast--this time as a judicial house of cards. And it's all happening in a country where the magnificence of a diametrically different vision is on display...
...particularly care for the monarchy and never have. To me the symbol of Britishness was never the bejeweled Queen, but rather that single, smiling, unarmed police officer (a "bobby") standing guard before the door of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. That was what the British stood for in my mind. Not extravagant pageantry, but a sense of tradition tempered by a cheerful reasonableness...