Word: touchings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...readers are going to take away from what you write. The book about my wife, to some people, was a book about love and marriage. I just wanted to write about my wife. I was on some television show, and I remember someone saying, "He shows he's in touch with his feelings." All I could think of was that I hope none of the guys I went to high school with read this. I'll never hear...
...know could be there at that particular hour.”Though her parents did not witness any firings first hand, several of her friends were close enough to see the shootings.Mashruwala said she called as many people as she could, but it was difficult to get in touch because phones were off or there was no service. She said she called her parents every half hour to make sure that they and everyone around them were fine.The attacks lasted 60 hours, and, for the first two days, Mashruwala said, everyone was to stay inside. She said that even after...
...went back to my room, locked it, and started watching TV. I can't remember what, though. I also called my firm, and they put me in touch with a security agency who kept me advised on what to do. I was still hearing gunfire and explosions, but I assumed that the attackers would want to cause maximum damage and run. I didn't think they'd want to lay siege to the entire hotel. I didn't think they'd come into rooms, and start coming into the upper levels. Then I saw on TV that they were targeting...
...says. "I wake up and eat and I'm thinking about it. I'm still thinking in the bath. I talk to everyone I can." It is difficult to name any other A-list celebrity, not even Bono, who has made such a total commitment. There are plenty who touch down in Africa between albums or movies, but none has actually walked off the job as Li has done, at the top of his game...
...edgier and more political. But for indigenous, righteous, complex and complete music, there is nothing like Cuba's timba. It has been a vital outlet for taking on taboos, like Los Van Van's early critique of rampant prostitution in a 1996 song about papayas: go ahead, they sang, touch it; it's a national product. During the economic crisis following the Soviet collapse, music was the one thing that held the island together, a common passion for both revolutionaries and reactionaries. The government understood its power; that's why supergroup La Charanga Habanera was banned for months...