Word: told
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dialogue between performer and listener, a way of creating a shared community of sufferers. It's no coincidence that B.B. King's song "Why I Sing the Blues" starts "I've been around a long time, people. I've paid my dues." The blues have to be told to someone. There have to be people to address. It's a music of anti-introspection, a way of confessing and purging your troubles. It's an answer to loneliness, and it's thesis is that so long as you can tell your problems to someone, they're no longer your problems...
...Pierce, from Spiritualized. We sent him a track, and the day we sent him the track, I read in the music press--NME [Britain's New Musical Express magazine]--and it said Jason Pierce has been advised to rest, he's suffering from nervous exhaustion and he's been told by his doctors to rest...
Additionally, the argument is made that to continue the Bonfire in any similar fashion would be "unwise and irresponsible." Yes, safety precautions must be followed, and maybe there should be more supervision, but the truth be told, the Red Pots (students in charge who wear red hard hats) are but mechanical engineering and construction science students with three and four years experience working on the Bonfire...
...goodwill is often not reciprocated. Notoriously irritated by continuously being pigeonholed as "electronica," Death in Vegas has largely given up reading any of its own press. This is probably just as well, since the band's scintillating performance at the Paradise proved the last thing it needs is being told what to sound like...
...walk in with Harvey Weinstein holding her train. Thank God I already ate. And then I remembered I am Gwyneth Paltrow." And a bit later in the presentation, she confirmed my fears about her boy-mongering: "I would like to thank a friend who shall remain nameless who told me never to sleep with a co-star--at least until after the picture had finished. I've obviously had a little trouble with that...