Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maybe it's just a test of your love. She thought, "What's the heaviest thing I can get someone to bring back...
...feverishly to connect that he makes you want to give him a hug. "I don't want to tell you what's on my mind," he says constantly. "I want to show you what's in my heart"--and you get the idea he'd like to rip the thing clean out of his breast, just to prove he has one. What's fascinating is that this all shows signs of working. He sometimes manages to find what performers call the Zone--the elusive place where everything they try works. In Seattle an audience of Boeing aerospace machinists went wild...
...most remarkable thing about the social warfare of Webster Groves is that there isn't much. There are clubs and tribes, unwritten dress codes and anxious social climbers who admit to their fear of being seen talking to the wrong person. And yet there is something almost diverse about the divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target...
...Some slouch through the doors, some bounce, some seem so fully grown, others are toddlers; they wear shorts and parkas and black trench coats; they are dyed and pierced and bespectacled and mascaraed and pumped up and wasted away; and none of them are typical--there is no such thing as average...
...free of books or homework. He says he completed his assignments at school the day before, a story that frustrates his mother, given his 2.0 grade-point average. "I always tell him, 'You've already got two strikes against you: you're black, and you're male. The only thing that's going to get you where you want to go in life is an education...