Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minds, where our ideals are kept: the embodiment of human rights and the creed of nonviolence. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is something else, an eccentric of complex, contradictory and exhausting character most of us hardly know. It is fashionable at this fin de siecle to use the man to tear down the hero, to expose human pathologies at the expense of larger-than-life achievements. No myth raking can rob Gandhi of his moral force or diminish the remarkable importance of this scrawny little man. For the 20th century--and surely for the ones to follow--it is the towering myth...
...together, many of the victims' families have formed the HOPE (Healing of People Everywhere) library fund. Last week the families announced HOPE's campaign to raise at least $3.1 million to build a new library adjacent to the school and to tear away the floor of the existing library to create a stunning two-story atrium with a view of the Rockies. "The library is a kind of sanctuary. It was the heart and soul of the school," says Don Fleming. "How could you go in and concentrate, knowing that 10 kids were murdered there...
...BRAD MEHLDAU Elegiac Cycle (Warner Bros.). A 29-year-old pianist who displays not only promise but accomplishment. With classical grace and jazz improvisation, he has created a masterly album about loss; virtually every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. Moments of genius in music are rare as diamonds. This CD sparkles like a display case at Tiffany...
...Sure is. Last week model LAETITIA CASTA'S phone rang repeatedly as she sat in the back seat of a Parisian taxicab. The driver, understandably annoyed, doused the official face of France with a wallop of tear gas. It worked...
...Here, Pierce eschews his college cult status in favor of straight-from-the-heart acoustic-based rockers. The album crunches into its opening track, "The Best Thing," with a funky ferocity that nevertheless shows off Pierce's soulful voice and harmonics, while "Transatlantic" is a true tear-the-top-off rocker. There are quieter moments as well: with the assistance of hometown friend Lisa Loeb, "Home" portrays the thoughts of a man who has recently found happiness in all that he already has. The album's strongest points, however, are where it weaves in between the happiness and sorrow. "Tower...