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Word: subjection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate pronoun game at work in the song reveals its actual subject: Hatfield herself. Instead of saying "I" over and over, Hatfield starts the song out in the second person, pointedly commenting on an unknown woman's pathetic dependency: "Crack a joke/light his smoke/as if your life depended...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A 22-Minute Revolution | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...Subject to President Neil L. Rudenstine's approval, chooses all FAS professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

...along, and of course the red light has let up, but since you're going along, you want to keep going. The inertia thing. So you do, and--unthinking--you, who has finally accomplished what you have set out to accomplish (i.e. lack of thought and pleasant meditation) are subject to the harshness of a crash...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Rhythm Of Life | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

...hours later, as you careen through transitions and subject-verb agreements, your world suddenly comes to a grinding halt. Accompanied by a nasty sound from the computer, the monitor tells you: "This application has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Paper Lost? Tricks For Recovery | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Before Seven Years in Tibet, Pitt didn't know much about the country's predominant religion. He picked up a copy of Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, an introduction to the subject, but never cracked it, preferring in the end to enter the project as ignorant as was the character he plays, Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, when he stumbled across the Tibetan border in 1944. But on a movie set stocked with actual monks working as extras, the actor picked up a thing or two. "Their idea of a civilization that rejects violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CONVERSATION RUNS THROUGH IT | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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