Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cynical about politics. "I believe oftentimes campaigns resort to mud throwing and name calling, and Americans are sick of that kind of campaigning," he says, chatting with an unseen listener. "I'd like to run a campaign that is hopeful and optimistic and very positive." It's a textbook effort at inoculation. If you hear anything bad about me, the ad's subtext says, it's that mud throwing and name calling I warned you about...
...suit also claims that the "Suggested Price" on VarsityBooks.com's Web site is misleading because no such "Suggested Price" exists in the textbook publishing industry...
...indie movie that flopped miserably. What's the chance of studios giving him his way again? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Sleepy Hollow isn't watered down, predictable or commercial at all. Reminiscent of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy, relentless darkness and a Lisa Marie cameo (she swirls in the wind!). The bad news is that it isn't the Gothic masterpiece that we might have expected. But it'll still be a gargantuan hit. Look for our special Sleepy Hollow feature...
Guitars and drums, loud and fast. In the great textbook of rock and roll, it's the first lesson and Dave Grohl learned it well. Just to get it out of the way early, yes, Grohl cut his teeth in some other big famous Seattle band before the Foo Fighters. Unfortunately, Grohl's celebrated lineage has always seemed to detract from his talents rather than advance them. With the first Foos' album, the world was waiting to see how many Kurt Cobain references they could find in his songs (regardless of the fact that much of the album was written...
...high school biology textbook offered an illustration: if an electrode is attached to the pleasure center of a rat's brain and the rat is given access to a lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...