Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often tend to imagine the future as something less human than the past. The years ahead seem populated with clones and robots and aliens, as well as the erosion or perversion of the things that connect people with other people, like families and friendships and religion. Perhaps the best thing about the music of the British trip-hop group Portishead, and the Icelandic pop diva Bjork, is that it sounds futuristic but never inhuman. Portishead's new album, Portishead, and Bjork's latest CD, Homogenic, echo with sounds that could belong to the next millennium. But both are also suffused...
...event] is very well respected in the industry and bands tend to come to us. Believe it or not, the artists for the most part, play for free as a gift to the station and the city for all of our support," said Engel. Only the performers' basic costs for things like transportation and lodging are covered...
...result of all this animosity? Becker says that men and women have lost the capacity for honest communication. His theory is that the differences between the sexes stem from the time when men were hunters and women were gatherers. Thus men tend to focus on the singular, while women tend to gather numerous things around them. For example, when women shop, they will often search for absolutely nothing in particular which "they will know as soon as they find it." Men, on the other hand, will focus on buying one item ("Me want shirt. Me get shirt. Go home, watch...
...stranger what he or she is interested in knowing about you. If you are unaccustomed to talking about yourself, it may be awkward at first. If you are not shy about discussing your talents and accomplishments, it may take some practice to sound confident but not arrogant. If you tend to be humble, it may take practice to avoid sounding overly self-deprecating...
Autobiographies tend to fall into three broad categories: lives of the rich and famous, twisted tales of the dysfunctional and portraits of artists as young scamps. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, the new memoir by J.M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Booker Prize-winner, ostensibly falls into the final category. In this short and elegantly written book, Coetzee chronicles his childhood in Worcester, a dusty settlement outside of Cape Town. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, the young Coetzee struggles with his Afrikaans identity, quarrels with his parents and pursues a secret double-life...